Developer Book

• Forewords
  • Introduction
  • Who is this book for ?
  • Content of the book
  • About the author(s)

Part 1 : Getting Started with OpenERP

• Development Environment
  • Development Environment
  • Working with Launchpad
  • Configuration
  • Command line options
  • OpenERP Server and Web Client - Start/Stop
  • Shutting down the server
• Modular Development Approach
  • OpenObject Server and Modules
  • Module Integrations
  • Inheritance
• OpenObject Architecture - Mvc
  • MVC - Model, View, Controller
  • MVCSQL

Part 2 : Module Development

• First Module to OpenERP
  • The Modules - Introduction
• Objects, Fields and Methods
  • OpenERP Objects
  • The ORM - Object Relation Model
  • OpenERP Object Attributes
  • Object Inheritance - _inherit
  • Inheritance by Delegation - _inherits
  • Fields Introduction
  • Type of Fields
  • ORM methods
• Views and Events
  • Introduction to Views
  • Form views
  • Tree views
  • Graph views
  • Search views
  • Calendar Views
  • Gantt Views
  • Design Elements
  • Inheritance in Views
  • Specify the views you want to use
  • Events
• Menu and Actions
  • Menus
  • Actions
  • Security

Part 3 : Business Process Development

• Workflow-Business Process
  • Introduction
  • Defining Workflow
  • General structure of a workflow XML file
  • Activity
  • Transition
  • Expressions
  • User Role
  • Error handling
  • Creating a Workflow
• Creating Wizard - (The Process)
  • Introduction
  • Wizards - Principles
  • Specification
  • Add A New Wizard
  • osv_memory Wizard System
  • osv_memory configuration item
• Guidelines on how to convert old-style wizard to new osv_memory style
  • OSV Memory Wizard
  • Steps
  • New Wizard File : <<module_name>>_<<filename>>.py
  • Old Wizard File : wizard_product_margin.py
  • New Wizard File : wizard/<<module_name>>_<<filename>>_view.xml
  • Default_focus attribute :
  • In Menu Item:
• Reports
  • OpenOffice.org reports
  • XSL:RML reports
  • Reports without corporate header
  • Each report with its own corporate header
  • Bar Codes
  • How to add a new report
  • Usual TAGS
  • Unicode reports
  • Html Reports Using Mako Templates
• I18n - Internationalization
  • Introduction

Part 4 : Business Process Advance Configuration

• Server Action
  • Introduction
  • Step 1: Definition of Server Action
  • Client Action
  • Iteration
  • Python Code
  • Trigger
  • Email Action
  • Create Object
  • Write Object
  • Multi Action
  • Step 2: Mapping Server actions to workflows
• Dashboard

Part 5 : Serialization, Migration, Upgrading, Testing

• Data Serialization
  • XML Data Serialization
  • YAML Data Serialization
  • Writing YAML Tests
  • CSV Data Serialization
  • Multiple CSV Files
• Data Migration - Import / Export
  • Data Importation
  • Data Loading
• Upgrading Server, Modules
  • Detailed update operations
  • Summary of update and init process
• Unit testing
  • Generalities
  • Using unit tests
  • Assert Tag
  • Workflow Tag
  • Function Tag
• Acceptance testing
  • Integrity tests on migrations
  • Workflow tests
  • Record creation

Part 6 : Service base Integration

• Working with Web Services
  • Supported Web Services Protocols
  • Available Web Services
  • Example : writing data through the Web Services
• XML-RPC Web services
  • Interfaces
  • Python Example
  • PHP Example
  • Perl Example

Part 7 : Other Topics

• RAD Tools
  • DIA
  • Open Office Report Designer
• Information Repository
  • Setting Value
  • IR Methods

Part 8 : Build and deploy

• Build
  • Dependencies
  • Source distribution
  • Binary distribution
• Deploy
  • Package script
  • Batch
  • SSH server
  • Fabric

Part 9 : Appendices

• Appendices Index
  • Appendices A : Coding Conventions
  • Releasing a module
  • Translations