Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

The first step adds a more user-friendly title to the model's definition. This is not mandatory, but can be used by some add-ons. For instance, it is used by the tracking feature in the mail add-on module for the notification text when a new record is created. For more details, refer to Chapter 23, Managing Emails.

By default, Odoo orders the records using the internal id value. However, this can be changed so that we can use the fields of our choice by providing an _order attribute with a string containing a comma-separated list of field names. A field name can be followed by the desc keyword to sort it in descending order.

Only fields stored in the database can be used. Non-stored computed fields can't be used to sort records. ...