Chapter 15: Web Client Development

Odoo's web client, or backend, is where employees spend most of their time. In Chapter 9, Backend Views, you saw how to use the existing possibilities that backends offer. Here, we'll take a look at how to extend and customize those possibilities. The web module contains everything related to the user interface in Odoo.

All of the code in this chapter will depend on the web module. As you know, Odoo has two different editions (Enterprise and Community). Community uses the web module for user interfaces, while the Enterprise version uses an extended version of the Community web module, which is the web_enterprise module.

The Enterprise version provides some extra features compared with the Community web, including ...

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