When developing an Odoo project, it is very helpful to bootstrap a completely new database from scratch, for instance:

• to deploy a new development environment
• generate builds inside a Continuous Integration system
• replay a data import on a clean database
• ...

By bootstraping, I mean create the database and configure it ...

If you need to override an existing translation in your own module, you need to enable this feature by overriding the ir.translation model at first:

from openerp import models


class IrTranslation(models.Model):
    _inherit = 'ir.translation'

    def _get_import_cursor(self, cr, uid, context=None):
        """Allow translation updates."""
        if context is ...

Intro

Odoo is a business application which can be separated, from a technical point of view, in three parts:

• the business application itself (the framework + modules, Root, dispatching requests of the Web client to the Web controllers) ;
• an XML-RPC web service layer (wsgi_xmlrpc, managing all /xmlrpc/ requests);
• and the Web ...

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Intro

Installing Odoo manually is very time consuming, it implies a lot of steps. Here's a subset of them:

• install and configure a PostgreSQL server ;
• create a PostgreSQL user with just the required permissions ;
• creating a system user to run the Odoo application ;
• install all the dependencies, either from ...