Following Odoo Tutorial - Getting Nowhere - Seems Normal

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Dear Programming Community,

Hello, this is dog. Please read my sufferings as I try and learn Odoo. I will try to draw ASCII art diagrams of my code that I have so you can emulate the package structure and link to a GitHub account so you can follow along with the horror I have encountered while trying to follow an Odoo tutorial.

The project code is located on GitHub at the following URL: https://github.com/avoidreality/OdooHorrorShow

A primitive ASCII art drawing follows this sentence. The words between brackets are folders. The asterisks are files. The lines connecting the folders emulate the folder hierarchy.

The project structure is so:

[test_odoo]
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  [add-ons]
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    [openacademy]
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     [controllers]
       *__init__.py
       *controllers.py
       |
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     [demo]
       *demo.xml
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     [models]
       *__init__.py
       *models.py
       |
       |
     [security]
       *ir.model.access.csv
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     [views]
       *openacademy.xml
       *templates.xml
       *views.xml
     *__init__.py
     *__manifest__.py

I have followed the tutorial up to this point: https://www.odoo.com/documentation/11.0/howtos/backend.html#relational-fields

So far I have no idea what I should be expecting to see or where I should see anything. I am assuming I am going to see something on a web page as some of the files edited have HTML tags. Does anyone have any clues about this?

The files that I have modified for the example are as follows:

 - OdooHorrorShow/test_odoo/addons/openacademy/models/models.py
 - OdooHorrorShow/test_odoo/addons/openacademy/demo/demo.xml
 - OdooHorrorShow/test_odoo/addons/openacademy/__manifest__.py
 - OdooHorrorShow/test_odoo/addons/openacademy/views/openacademy.xml

I do have an odoo 11 server running on my localhost. When I go to the localhost and enter the odoo port number I am immediately brought to this page: http://localhost:8069/web

Regards,

user3870315

Learning Odoo has a very steep learning curve, don't give up! You are on the right path. — Adan Cortes
Thank-you guys for the encouragement. That is amazing. Most people just want to "watch the world burn". — user3870315

Adan Cortes Adan Cortes · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-03T03:19:35

There's almost nothing to see (graphically) to the point you have reached so far.

If your module is correctly installed, you can see its data sheet.

Go to the Apps menu. On the upper left, you'll see a search bar with a Apps [x] tag and a magnifying glass symbol with a plus sign inside.
Click on the [x] to make the Apps [x] tag disappear.
Search for openacademy on the search bar.

But as you can see, there are no menus nor views in the module yet.

Following Odoo Tutorial - Getting Nowhere - Seems Normal

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