Embedded views

When you show a one2many or a many2many field on a form, you don't have much control over how it is rendered up to now if you haven't used one of the specialized widgets. Also, in the case of many2one fields, it is desirable sometimes to be able to influence the way the linked record is opened. In this recipe, we'll look into how to define private views for those fields.

How to do it...

1. Define your field as usual, but don't close the tag:

   <field name="child_ids">

2. Simply write the view definition(s) into the tag:

       <tree>
           <field name="name" />
           <field name="email" />
           <field name="phone" />
       </tree>
       <form>
           <group>
               <field name="name" />
               <field name="function" />
           </group>
       </form>

3. Close the tag:

   </field>

How it works...

When Odoo loads a form, it first checks for reference fields if there are views embedded as outlined previously. Those...