Getting ready

Suppose you want to change the way addresses are handled in your instance; your customer needs a third field in addition to Odoo's two (street and street2) to store addresses. You could certainly write your own addon to add a field on res.partner, but the issue is a bit trickier than it seems if you want the address to be properly formatted on invoices. Fortunately, someone on a mailing list tells you about the partner_address_street3 addon that is maintained by the OCA as part of the partner-contact project.

The paths used in this recipe reflect the layout proposed in the Standardizing your instance directory layout recipe.

How to do it…

To install partner_address_street3, follow these steps:

How it works…

All the Odoo Community Association code repositories have their addons contained in separate subdirectories, which is coherent with what is expected by Odoo regarding the directories in the addons path; therefore, just cloning the repository somewhere and adding that location in the addons path is enough.

There's more…

Some maintainers follow a different approach and have one addon module per repository, living at the root of the repository. In that case, you need to create a new directory, which you will add to the addons path and clone all the addons from that maintainer you need in this directory. Remember to update the addon modules list each time you add a new repository clone.