Odoo is one of the data-driven applications which are used for business management and the vitality to describe the various aspects of company operational data is inevitable . We can begin with the module structure. The main part of module creation is the definition of different records which they will manage. As we all know, Odoo greatly depends on data therefore, it needs to manage menus and views of the user interface, access rights and access rules, different reports, and plain data.

1. Data Files in Odoo 16

2. ● Odoo is one of the data-driven applications which are used for
business management and the vitality to describe the various aspects
of company operational data is inevitable .
● We can begin with the module structure.
● The main part of module creation is the definition of different records
which they will manage.
● As we all know, Odoo greatly depends on data therefore, it needs to
manage menus and views of the user interface, access rights and
access rules, different reports, and plain data.

3. • We can add data through XML and CSV files Lets have a look at how we can define data in
Odoo via XML files.
• This is the root elements of the data files. We can use many operation elements within the
root.
noupdate - Whenever we are adding data we must need to give noupdate = 1,
since the contents of the file should be applied once when we install the module.

5. • Next, we can move on to have a look at what are the core operations in a data file to create a
record.

6. ❖ A record tag in an XML file is used to define or update database records. The below are some of
the attributes of the record tag.
Model: This attribute is used to mention the name of the model which we need to create/update a
record. That means we are going to create a record in this model.
ID: This indicates the external ID for the record. It will be used in record modifications in the future.
❖ After adding the record go to your manifest file.

7. ❖ Add created file in manifest like below.

8. ❖ Update your app list and activate your module.

9. ❖ Now go to your Employees module.

10. ❖ And here we will get our newly added employee.

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