Exporting and importing data

We will start exploring how data exporting and importing work from Odoo's user interface, and from there, we will move on to the more technical details on how to use the data files in our addon modules.

Exporting data

Data exporting is a standard feature available in any list view. To use it, we must first pick the rows to export by selecting the corresponding checkboxes on the far left and then select the Export option from the More button.

Here is an example, using the recently created to-do tasks:

Exporting data

We can also tick the checkbox in the header of the column. It will check all the records at once, and will export all the ...

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