Interact With Other Modules
Interact With Other Modules in odoo 14
We used inheritance to modify the behavior of a module. In our sales we would like to go a step further and be able to generate invoices for our customers. Odoo provides an Invoicing module, so it would be neat to create an invoice directly from our real estate module, i.e. once a property is set to ‘Sold’, an invoice is created in the Invoicing application.
Link Module
The common approach for such use cases is to create a ‘link’ module. In our case, the module would depend on sale and purchaase and would include the invoice creation logic of the sale property. This way the real sales and purchase modules can be installed independently. When both are installed, the link module provides the new feature.
- Create a link module.Create the
sales_purchasemodule, which depends on thesalesand purchase modules. For now, it will be an empty shell.
When the sales_purchase module appears in the list, go ahead and install it! You’ll notice that the Invoicing application is installed as well. This is expected since your module depends on it. If you uninstall the Invoicing application, your module will be uninstalled as well.