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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 10 Development Essentials Explore the functionalities of Odoo to build powerful business applications.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884887
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Odoo Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Odoo Application 3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications 4. Module Data 5. Models – Structuring the Application Data 6. Views - Designing the User Interface 7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. Writing Tests and Debugging Your Code 9. QWeb and Kanban Views 10. Creating QWeb Reports 11. Creating Website Frontend Features 12. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 13. Deployment Checklist – Going Live

The form views


As we have seen in previous chapters, form views can follow a simple layout or a business document layout, similar to a paper document.

We will now see how to design these business document views and how to use the elements and widgets available. We would normally do this by inheriting and extending the todo_app views. But for the sake of clarity, we will instead create completely new views to override the original ones.

Dealing with several views of the same type

The same model can have more than one view of the same type. This can be useful since an window action can tell the specific view that should be used, through its XML ID. So we have the flexibility to have two different menu items to open the same model using different views. This is done adding a view_id attribute to the window action, with the XML ID of the view to use. For example, we could have used this in the todo_app.action_todo_task action, with something similar to: view_id="view_form_todo_task_ui".

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