Odoo Development Cookbook

Chapter 15. Web Client Development

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating custom widgets
• Using client side QWeb templates
• Making RPC calls to the server
• Writing tests for client side code
• Debugging your client side code

Introduction

Odoo's web client, or backend, is the place where employees spend most of their time. In Chapter 8, Backend Views, you have seen how to use the existing possibilities the backend offers. Here, we'll have a look at how to extend and customize those possibilities. All of the following code will depend on the web module. Note that at the time of writing, there exist two versions of the web module for Odoo 9.0: the community version and the enterprise version, which are quite different from each other, ...