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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Designing Kanban views


We will improve the todo_stage module we have been working with to add the Kanban view to the to-do tasks.

For this, we will use a new data file, views/todo_kanban_view.xml. We need to edit the data key in the descriptor file, __manifest__.py, to append this new data file at the end of the list.

Next, we can create the actual XML file where our shiny new Kanban view will go, at todo_stage/views/todo_kanban_view.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<odoo>

  <!-- Add Kanban view mode to the menu Action: -->   
  <record id="todo_app.action_todo_task"
          model="ir.actions.act_window">
      <field name="view_mode"
      >kanban,tree,form,calendar,graph,pivot
      </field> 
  </field> 
  
  <!-- Add Kanban view --> 
  <record id="todo_task_kanban" model="ir.ui.view"> 
    <field name="model">todo.task</field> 
    <field name="arch" type="xml">
      <kanban>
<!-- Empty for now, but the Kanban...