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Odoo 11 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 11 Development Essentials Develop and customize business applications with Odoo 11

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477796
Length 336 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Organizing the Development Environment 3. Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview 4. Models – Structuring the Application Data 5. Import, Export, and Module Data 6. The ORM API – Handling Application Data 7. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 9. Backend Views – Design the User Interface 10. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 11. Reports and Server-Side QWeb 12. Creating Website Frontend Features 13. Debugging and Automated Tests 14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

The form views


As we have seen in previous chapters, form views can either 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 several Views of the same type, by default the view with the lowest Priority value, but an Action can set a specific view to be used, through its XML ID. Using this, we can have two different menu items opening the same model but use different views. This is achieved using the  view_id attribute of the Window Action, with the XML ID of the view to use. For example, in the todo_app.action_todo_task Action, we could add to it the view_id="view_form_todo_task_ui" attribute.

To add a new View...

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