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Technical Name ap_library
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Availability
Odoo Online
Odoo.sh
On Premise
Odoo Apps Dependencies Discuss (mail)
Lines of code 2378
Technical Name ap_library
LicenseOPL-1
Websitehttps://www.erotocaap.com

📚 Library Management System

A complete, production-ready Odoo module for managing books, borrowing history, conflict resolution, and automated email reminders.

✅ Odoo 16 / 17 📦 Version 1.0 🏢 Community & Enterprise ⚖️ OPL-1 License
Library Management System Banner

🌟 Key Features

📖 Book Catalogue

Cover images auto-fetched from OpenLibrary API, ISBN uniqueness constraints, Many2many authors, categories, copy count and real-time availability flag.

📋 Booking History

Full lifecycle — Draft → Pending → Approved → Returned / Rejected — with chatter, activity mixin, computed day-count and auto sequence numbering.

⚔️ Conflict Detection

On approval, overlapping bookings are detected. If all copies are occupied, a wizard opens listing conflicts and offers available date slots.

🎲 Demo Data Loader

One-click server actions to populate 20 realistic books with live cover art, categories, and 10 historical bookings across various statuses.

🗂️ Category System

Hierarchical categories with parent-child support, cover images, and computed book count. Drill into category books directly from the kanban card.

🔔 Automated Emails

3 email templates: booking confirmation with PDF attachment, librarian status-update notification, and overdue return reminder grouped per customer.

📄 PDF Reports

QWeb-generated booking history and book-detail reports available as one-click downloads and auto-attached to outbound confirmation emails.

🔐 Role-Based Access

Three security groups — Admin, Librarian, User — with fine-grained record rules, group-restricted buttons and context-aware field defaults.

Book Catalogue List View

① Book Catalogue — List View with availability, ISBN, authors and cover images

Booking Form View

② Booking History — Form View with status bar, approve/reject actions and chatter

Conflict Detection Wizard

③ Booking Conflict Wizard — detects overlaps and offers available date slots

Email Reminder

④ Automated overdue return reminder email with grouped bookings table

🔄 Booking Workflow

DRAFT
→
PENDING
→
APPROVED
→
RETURNED
Step Actor Action Result
1 User / Librarian Click "Request Book" Wizard opens pre-filled with dates
2 System Create booking record Sequence no. assigned, confirmation email sent with PDF
3 Librarian / Admin Validate & Approve Conflict check runs automatically
4a System No conflict found Status → Approved, copy count decremented
4b System Conflict detected Conflict wizard opens → show available slots → notify user
5 Librarian / Admin Mark as Returned Copy count restored, availability reset to True

🔐 Role-Based Access Control

Permission Admin Librarian User
View all books ✔ ✔ ✔
Create / Edit books ✔ ✔ ✘
Delete books ✔ ✘ ✘
Request book (wizard) ✔ ✔ ✔
Approve / Reject booking ✔ ✔ ✘
View own bookings only ✘ ✘ ✔
Send return reminder ✔ ✔ ✘
Print PDF reports ✔ ✔ ◐ Own only

⚙️ Installation Guide

  1. Download & place the module
    cp -r wk_library_management /opt/odoo/custom_addons/
  2. Update addons path in odoo.conf
    addons_path = /opt/odoo/addons,/opt/odoo/custom_addons
  3. Restart Odoo server
    sudo systemctl restart odoo
  4. Go to Apps → Update App List → Search "Library Management" → Install
  5. Load demo data (optional): Library → Books → Action → Load Demo Books
  6. Configure SMTP: Settings → Technical → Outbound Mail Servers
📦 Dependencies: base, mail — no extra Python packages required beyond requests (standard in Odoo environments).

🛠️ Technical Stack

Models

  • 📗 book.books — Book catalogue
  • 📂 book.category — Hierarchical categories
  • 📋 booking.history — Booking lifecycle
  • 🧙 book.issue.wizard — User request wizard
  • ⚔️ booking.conflict.wizard — Conflict handler
  • 📅 available.slot.wizard — Slot finder

ORM / Framework Features Used

  • ✅ mail.thread + mail.activity.mixin
  • ✅ @api.constrains — ISBN uniqueness
  • ✅ @api.model_create_multi
  • ✅ ir.sequence — Auto booking numbers
  • ✅ ir.actions.report — QWeb PDF
  • ✅ _sql_constraints — DB-level uniqueness

📝 Changelog

v1.0.0 May 2025

  • Initial release — Book, Category & Booking models
  • Booking conflict detection with available-slot computation
  • 3 automated email templates with PDF attachment support
  • Role-based access: Admin, Librarian, User security groups
  • Demo data loader — 20 books with OpenLibrary cover art
  • Bulk server actions: Download Report, Deny Bookings, Send Reminder
  • QWeb PDF reports for bookings and book details

📚 Library Management System

Developed by Erotoca Software Pvt. Ltd.

License: OPL-1  |  Odoo 16 & 17  |  support@erotoca.com 

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