• Declaring a record in XML

• Place id attribute before model

• For field declarations-

• • Group the records by model. In case of any dependencies like action/menu/views, the convention may not be applicable

  • Use naming convention defined at the next point

• To set not-updatable data, the <data> tag is set as noupdate=1 value, when the data file has a mix of “noupdate” data. Else you can use one of these-

• The name attribute is first

• The value attribute is either in field tag or in eval attribute. After that follows other attributes according to priorities

• • <odoo> : for noupdate=0

  • <odoo noupdate='1'>

• Do not prefix xmlid with current module's name

For records of model ir.filters use explicit user_id field

Security, View and Action

Use following patterns :

• For menu: <model_name>_menu

• For view: <model_name>_view_<view_type>, where;

• • view_type is kanban, tree, form, search or other basic elements

• For action: The main action syntax is <model_name>_action. It is further suffixed with _<detail>, where;

• • detail is an underscore lowercase string explaining the action.

• For group: <model_name>_group_<group_name>, where;

• • group_name is the name of the group, like- user, manager, etc.

• For rule: <model_name>_rule_<concerned_group>, where;

• • concerned_group is the short name of concerned group.

Inherited XML :

• A module can extend its view only one time.

• The naming rules must be followed when a view is inherited while the module name prevents xid conflicts.

• If an inherited view has name that does not follow the guidelines set, follow naming inherited view after original over using name that follows the guidelines.

• This simplifies looking towards original view as well as other inheritance in case if they have same name.

__openerp__.py

• If any of your modules uses extra dependencies of python or binaries, you need to add it to external_dependencies section to the __openerp__.py

• An entry in python needs to be in the PYTHONPATH. It is checked by running python -c “import external_dependency_python_N”

• An entry in bin needs to be in PATH and check by running which external_dependency_binary_N

ImportError

• If external dependencies used, you need to add try-except with a debug log.

• Test files are the exception as these files are loaded while running tests where module and its external dependencies are installed.

If a module uses extra dependencies of python or binaries, then explain how to install them in the README.rst file in the section Installation.