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Commit 0aab81cd authored by Xavier Morel's avatar Xavier Morel
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[IMP] doc: move manifest description from backend tutorial to manifest doc

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most command-line options can also be set using :ref:`a configuration
file <reference/cmdline/config>`
An Odoo module is declared by its :ref:`manifest <reference/module/manifest>`. It
is mandatory and contains a single python dictionary declaring various
metadata for the module: the module's name and description, list of Odoo
modules required for this one to work properly, references to data files, …
The manifest's general structure is::
{
'name': "MyModule",
'version': '1.0',
'depends': ['base'],
'author': "Author Name",
'category': 'Category',
'description': """
Description text
""",
# data files always loaded at installation
'data': [
'mymodule_view.xml',
],
# data files containing optionally loaded demonstration data
'demo': [
'demo_data.xml',
],
}
An Odoo module is declared by its :ref:`manifest <reference/module/manifest>`.
See the :ref:`manifest documentation <reference/module/manifest>` information
about it.
A module is also a
`Python package <http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html#packages>`_
......@@ -110,13 +88,13 @@ might contain::
from . import mymodule
Fortunately, there is a mechanism to help you set up an module. The command
``odoo.py`` has a subcommand :ref:`scaffold <reference/cmdline/scaffold>` to
create an empty module:
Odoo provides a mechanism to help set up a new module, :ref:`odoo.py
<reference/cmdline/server>` has a subcommand :ref:`scaffold
<reference/cmdline/scaffold>` to create an empty module:
.. code:: bash
.. code-block:: console
odoo.py scaffold <module name> <where to put it>
$ odoo.py scaffold <module name> <where to put it>
The command creates a subdirectory for your module, and automatically creates a
bunch of standard files for a module. Most of them simply contain commented code
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......@@ -15,6 +15,27 @@ and to specify a number of module metadata.
It is a file called ``__openerp__.py`` and contains a single Python
dictionary, each dictionary key specifying a module metadatum.
::
{
'name': "A Module",
'version': '1.0',
'depends': ['base'],
'author': "Author Name",
'category': 'Category',
'description': """
Description text
""",
# data files always loaded at installation
'data': [
'mymodule_view.xml',
],
# data files containing optionally loaded demonstration data
'demo': [
'demo_data.xml',
],
}
Available manifest fields are:
``name`` (``str``, required)
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