Managing activities on documents

When using chatter, you can also add activities. These are used to plan your actions on the record. It is kind of a to-do list for each record. In this recipe, you will learn how to enable activities on any model.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the my_hostel module from the previous recipe, Managing chatter on documents. We will add activities to the hostel.student model.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add activities to the hostel.student model:

1. Inherit mail.activity.mixin in the Python definition of the hostel.student model:

   class HostelStudent(models.Model):
      _name = "hostel.student"
      _description = "Hostel Student Information"
      _inherit = ['mail.thread', 'mail.activity.mixin']
   ...

2. Add the mail_activity widget in the chatter of the hostel.student model:

   ...
   <div class="oe_chatter">
      ...