Adding a quick create form to a Kanban card

Grouped Kanban views provide the quick create feature, which allows us to generate records directly from the Kanban view. The plus icon on a column will display an editable Kanban card on the column, using which you can create a record. In this recipe, we will learn how to design a quick create Kanban form of our choice.

Getting started

For this recipe, we will be using the my_hostel module from the previous recipe. We will use the quick create option in Kanban for the hostel.room model.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add a custom quick create form for Kanban:

1. Create a new minimal form view for the hostel.room model, as follows:

   <record id="hostel_room_view_form_minimal" model="ir.ui.view">
       <field name="name">Hostel room Form</field>
       <field name="model">hostel.room</field>
       ...