Managing activities from a kanban card

Odoo uses activities to schedule actions on records. These activities can be managed in form view and the kanban view. In this recipe, we will see how you can manage activities from the kanban view card. We will add an activity widget to the cards of the rent kanban.

Getting started

For this recipe, we will be using the my_library module from the previous recipe.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add and mange activity from the kanban view:

1. Add mail dependencies to the manifest file:

    'depends': ['base', 'mail'],

2. Inherit activity mixin in the library.book.rent model:

    class LibraryBookRent(models.Model):
       _name = 'library.book.rent'
       _inherit = ['mail.thread', 'mail.activity.mixin']

3. Add the activity_state field to the kanban view under the color field:

   <field name="color" />
   <field name=&quot...