Installation of a development environment for OpenERP

• PostgreSQL installed and reachable
• python 2.7.x

• review database settings
• make virtual env
• bootstrap
• run buildout
• start server

These settings in the buildout.cfg in the openerp path need to be adjusted:

options.db_host = localhost
options.db_name = False
options.db_user = seletz
options.db_pass = False

Make a virtualenv:

$ mkvirtualenv openerp-dev
$ workon openerp-dev
$ mkdir openerp-dev
$ cd openerp-dev
$ setvirtualenvproject

Run bootstrap.py:

$ workon openerp-dev
$ cd buildout
$ python bootstrap.py

This will run some time.

Fire the server up:

$ workon openerp-dev
$ cd buildout
$ bin/start_openerp

OpenERP should now be running on http://localhost:8069.

This example is derived from the google docs attachment addon. It shows:

• how to create a new model:

  A model sidebar_example.config is created in __init__.py

• how to hook in a configuration setting:

  A new configutation view is added for the above model. A tree and form view is configured. The forms are hooked into the main settings menu.

• how to hook in a new menu entry dynamically. The menu entry Add Foo Doc ... is added dynamically to the Attachments drop-down menu of all models where a attachment is allowed.

  This is done completely in the browser using javascript.

I've followed the example https://doc.openerp.com/trunk/web/module, the code is in src/web_example.

buildout recipe documentation

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/anybox.recipe.openerp

OpenERP Server Developer's Documentation

https://doc.openerp.com/trunk/server/

OpenERP Web Developer's Documentation

https://doc.openerp.com/trunk/web/

building a OpenERP web module

https://doc.openerp.com/trunk/web/module/

OpenERP Technical Memento PDF

https://www.openerp.com/files/memento/OpenERP_Technical_Memento_latest.pdf