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Odoo Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo Development Essentials Fast track your development skills to build powerful Odoo business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784392796
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Odoo Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Odoo Application 3. Inheritance – Extending Existing Applications 4. Data Serialization and Module Data 5. Models – Structuring the Application Data 6. Views – Designing the User Interface 7. ORM Application Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. QWeb – Creating Kanban Views and Reports 9. External API – Integration with Other Systems 10. Deployment Checklist – Going Live Index

Other types of views


The most frequent view types used are the form and list views, discussed until now. Other than these, a few other view types are available, and we will give a brief overview on each of them. Kanban views won't be addressed now, since we will cover them in Chapter 8, QWeb – Creating Kanban Views and Reports.

Remember that the view types available are defined in the view_mode attribute of the corresponding window action.

Calendar views

As the name suggests, this view presents the records in a calendar. A calendar view for the to-do tasks could look like this:

<record id="view_calendar_todo_task" model="ir.ui.view">
  <field name="name">view_calendar_todo_task</field>
  <field name="model">todo.task</field>
  <field name="arch" type="xml">
    <calendar date_start="date_deadline" color="user_id"
              display="[name], Stage [stage_id]">
      <!-- Fields used for the text of display attribute -->
      <field name=...
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