Defining the activity view

Activities are an important part of Odoo apps. They are used to schedule to-do actions for different business objects. The activity view helps you to see the statuses and schedules of all activities on the model.

Getting ready

In our example, we will continue using the my_project module from the previous recipe. We will create a new activity view for the tasks of the project.

How to do it...

1. Define a gantt view for the task model as follow:

   <record id="view_project_tasks_activity" model="ir.ui.view">
       <field name="name">project task activity</field>
       <field name="model">project.task</field>
       <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
           <activity string="Tasks"> 
              ...