Calendar views

This recipe walks you through how to display and edit information about dates and durations in your records in a visual way.

How to do it...

1. Define a calendar view:

   <record id="calendar_project_task" model="ir.ui.view">
       <field name="model">project.task</field>
       <field name="arch" type="xml">
           <calendar date_start="date_start" date_stop="date_end" color="project_id">
               <field name="name" />
               <field name="user_id" />
           </calendar>
       </field>
   </record>

2. Add menus and actions using this view. This is left as an exercise for the reader.

How it works...

The calendar view needs to be passed field names in the attributes date_start and date_stop to indicate which fields to look at when building the visual representation. Use fields of type Datetime as everything else will get you weird results. While date_start is required, you can leave out date_stop and set the attribute date_delay instead...