Base module that provides additional tools and utilities for developers

• Check if barcode exist by passing model and barcode field name

• Generate barcode from any number

• Find the IP of the host where Odoo is running.

• Date & Time Utilities

  • Convert time to UTC
  • UTC to local time
  • Get weekdays for a given period
  • Same Weekday next week
  • Split date

• Zip a directory and return bytes object which is ready for storing in Binary fields. No on-disk temporary file is needed.

  • usage: zip_archive_bytes = self.env[‘to.base’].zip_dir(path_to_directory_to_zip)

• Sum all digits of a number (int|float)

• Finding the lucky number (digit sum = 9) which is nearest the given number

• Return remote host IP by sending http request to http(s)://base_url/my/ip/

• Replace the SQL constraint unique_name_per_day in res.currency.rate model with Python constraint

• Add new widget named readonly_state_selection to allow dropdown selection even the record is readonly to the user. To implement this

  <recordid="kanban_state_model_view_form"model="ir.ui.view"><fieldname="name">Form View Name</field><fieldname="model">your.model</field><fieldname="arch"type="xml"><formstring="Form View Name"><fieldname="kanban_state"widget="readonly_state_selection"force_save="1"/></form></field></record>

• Replace Odoo’s module icons with your own icons by

  • How to do
    • creating a new module named ‘viin_brand’ and place your icons in side viin_brand/static/imp/apps/
    • the icon name convention is module_name.png. For example, mrp.png to replace the module MRP’s icon
    • upgrade all the modules (start Odoo server with option -u all)