Prior to this commit, users had to either know in advance or guess the
location of the content they were looking for. Top-level pages of the
"Developer" section of the documentation, in particular the "Developer"
page itself, were listing their sub-pages without directions for users.
This commit brings the following changes to improve the navigation:
- add directions for users on the "Developer" page and list the three
main categories of developer documentation ("Tutorials", "How-to
guides", and "Reference") with explanations of their content and
target audience;
- add categories for content cards on the "Tutorials" and "How-to
guides" pages, and fine-tune the toctree of the "Reference" page to
more easily locate specific topics;
- clarify what are the "Python framework" and the "JavaScript framework"
by relabelling them to "Server framework" and "Web framework" on
top-level pages, as some users were confused to find that the JS
framework was not responsible for the server, and others that the
documentation for QWeb template is located in the Python documentation;
- extract the "Setup guide" from the "Getting started" tutorial and
rename the latter to "Server framework 101" to allow reusing the setup
guide in other tutorials and make clear that the "Server framework 101"
tutorial is not about the Web framework.
task-3802536
closesodoo/documentation#8597
Signed-off-by: Antoine Vandevenne (anv) <anv@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Valeriya (vchu) <vchu@odoo.com>
Since we've introduced Owl, developers want more and more to create
standalone Owl applications outside of the webclient. This commit
introduces a How-to for doing just that.
task-3580007
closesodoo/documentation#6493
Related: odoo/odoo#142498
Signed-off-by: Samuel Degueldre (sad) <sad@odoo.com>
It has been decided to remove the possibility for our users to create
their own IAP services.
This decision was motivated by the fact that, in the 5 years of
existence of IAP, very few non-Odoo services have been created and
actively used by our customers.
X-original-commit: 282f041ed1
Part-of: odoo/documentation#6327
A complete guide on how to create a custom website theme for Odoo
closesodoo/documentation#4420
X-original-commit: 892fd3e2ac
Signed-off-by: Antoine Vandevenne (anv) <anv@odoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Castillo Jonathan (jcs) <jcs@odoo.com>
SQL view was formerly part of the dashboard tutorial which is now
obsolete. Since creating a SQL view as a tutorial does not make sense
anymore, it has been converted into a simple howto.
closesodoo/documentation#4035
Task: 3226581
X-original-commit: 7124542ed9
Signed-off-by: Tiffany Chang <tic@odoo.com>
The JavaScript cheatsheet is outdated, we therefore remove it and
replace it by multiple howtos:
- Create a view from scratch
- Extending an existing view
- Create a field from scratch
- Extend an existing field
- Create a client action
There is other subjects to introduce as the web framework is big. Other
future contributions will cover them.
closesodoo/documentation#4020
X-original-commit: 7e4435deb8
Signed-off-by: Dardenne Florent (dafl) <dafl@odoo.com>
The extension adds two new directive:
- `cards` is the row container for one or more `card` directives.
- `card` is the implementation of a Bootstrap card that accepts a
`target` argument for the href of the card, a `large` option to render
the card on two columns, a `tag` option to display a single arbitrary
tag on the card, and arbitrary content that is shown in the card
body.
task-3141419
closesodoo/documentation#3689
X-original-commit: 34bc63d2bc
Signed-off-by: Antoine Vandevenne (anv) <anv@odoo.com>
This commit also replaces references to the "Building a module"
tutorial by references to the "Getting started" tutorial.
task-2991663
X-original-commit: 4f4e346953
Part-of: odoo/documentation#3660
The goal of this commit is to propose a first step towards a new
`.. card::` directive for the toctrees. This is a first design
proposition for this new card component in raw html for the fallback
page `howtos.rst`
The long term objective is to redesign the toctrees by implementing card
components, clearer toctree list design and custom html pages.
Related to task-3059229
closesodoo/documentation#3408
X-original-commit: 64363d8640
Signed-off-by: Antoine Vandevenne (anv) <anv@odoo.com>
Add a new content focused on SCSS and user-interface.
- SCSS coding guidelines: regroup information already available (eg [1])
or based on "oral tradition".
The aim is not to establish new rules, ~99% of the current codebase
is already compliant.
- SCSS inheritance: explain how SCSS assets management works in odoo.
For example, people still find confusing that overrides are defined
*before* the variable to customize.
- SCSS optimization tips: suggestions to lean SCSS code. Based on SCSS
optimization task's know-how [2].
- CSS variables: explain how this feature is commonly used in odoo to
adapt layout & design without raw CSS overrides.
- UI Icons: Add link to fontAwesome4 library . Replace the picture of
odoo icons with the actual font (90kb image VS 15Kb font)
[1] https://github.com/odoo/odoo/wiki/SCSS-coding-guidelines
[2] https://www.odoo.com/web#id=2704984&menu_id=4720&cids=1&model=project.task&view_type=form
task-3090800
closesodoo/documentation#3327
X-original-commit: 2ca32b40bc
Signed-off-by: Antoine Vandevenne (anv) <anv@odoo.com>
This commit adds the introduction and the chapter 1 of the new
Owl/JavaScript framework tutorial.
This new tutorial allows people to discover Owl and the building blocks
of the Odoo JavaScript framework.
closesodoo/documentation#3069
X-original-commit: 62051b643f
Signed-off-by: Antoine Vandevenne (anv) <anv@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Géry Debongnie <ged@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Antoine Vandevenne (anv) <anv@odoo.com>
This tutorial was already outdated in 13.0 (but
supposedly working).
In 14.0+, a lot of changes happened in website logic,
especially for 'website option definitions', breaking
the existing theme tutorial.
Considering the fact that a new tutorial is being made,
and that fixing the whole existing tutorial would be
a big work, it will be kept, but hidden as 'most things
being said still make sense'.
closesodoo/documentation#3006
X-original-commit: 9cc60baf46
Signed-off-by: Victor Feyens (vfe) <vfe@odoo.com>
It is hard to find and learn about RPC in Odoo, users hardly know about
JSON-RPC as the only place where we talk about it in deep down in the
*How to make a Module* tutorial.
In the commit, we isolated the tutorial about RPC in a dedicated file,
that file is better referenced thanks to cross-references in some others
places that are talking about RPC
Task: 2884559
X-original-commit: 83c2e6de0b
Part-of: odoo/documentation#2719
closesodoo/documentation#1969
X-original-commit: 9db567159d
Signed-off-by: Antoine Vandevenne (anv) <anv@odoo.com>
Signed-off-by: William André (wan) <wan@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: William Andre <wan@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Ivan Yelizariev <iel@odoo.com>
When searching for a string that can be found in a TOC page's content,
that page is listed in the search results. This is not a wanted behavior
because TOC pages without the 'show-content' metadata directive are not
supposed to be accessible.
This commit adds a 'nosearch' metadata directive to all TOC pages
without a 'show-content' metadata directive, hence removing them from
search results.
task-2527419
The new R&D training is intended to replace the existing technical
training(s). It is organized as follow:
- A core training, with chapters to follow in order (1 - 16)
- Advanced topics, with independent chapters (A - O)
The advanced topics should be done after the core training.
Co-authored-by: Nicolas Martinelli <nim@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Jorge Pinna Puissant <jpp@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: wan <wan@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Xavier Morel <xmo@odoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Tiffany Chang (tic) <tic@odoo.com>
Prior to this commit, the Odoo documentation was mainly split between
two repositories: odoo/odoo/doc and odoo/documentation-user. Some bits
of documentation were also hosted elsewhere (e.g., wiki, upgrade, ...).
This was causing several problems among which:
- The theme, config, Makefile, and similar technical resources had to
be duplicated. This resulted in inconsistent layout, features, and
build environments from one documentation to another.
- Some pages did not fit either documentation as they were relevant
for both users and developers. Some were relevant to neither of the
two (e.g., DB management).
- Cross-doc references had to be absolute links and they broke often.
- Merging large image files in the developer documentation would bloat
the odoo/odoo repository. Some contributions had to be lightened to
avoid merging too many images (e.g., Odoo development tutorials).
- Long-time contributors to the user documentation were chilly about
going through the merging process of the developer documentation
because of the runbot, mergebot, `odoo-dev` repository, etc.
- Some contributors would look for the developer documentation in the
`odoo/documentation-user` repository.
- Community issues about the user documentation were submitted on the
`odoo/odoo` repository and vice-versa.
Merging all documentations in one repository will allow us to have one
place, one theme, one work process, and one set of tools (build
environment, ...) for all of the Odoo docs.
As this is a good opportunity to revamp the layout of the documentation,
a brand new theme replaces the old one. It features a new way to
navigate the documentation, centered on the idea of always letting the
reader know what is the context (enclosing section, child pages, page
structure ...) of the page they are reading. The previous theme would
quickly confuse readers as they navigated the documentation and followed
cross-application links.
The chance is also taken to get rid of all the technical dangling parts,
performance issues, and left-overs. Except for some page-specific JS
scripts, the Odoo theme Sphinx extension is re-written from scratch
based on the latest Sphinx release to benefit from the improvements and
ease future contributions.
task-2351938
task-2352371
task-2205684
task-2352544
Closes#945
