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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the fastest growing open source, business application development software products available. With announcement of Odoo 10, there are many new features added to Odoo and the face of business applications developed with Odoo has changed. This book will not only teach you how to build and customize business applications with Odoo, but it also covers all the new features that Odoo has to offer. This book is the latest resource on developing and customizing Odoo 10 applications. It comes packed with much more and refined content than its predecessor. It will start with building business applications from scratch and will cover topics such as module extensions, inheritance, working with data, user interfaces, and so on. The book also covers the latest features of Odoo 10, in addition to front end development, testing and debugging techniques. The book will also talk about Odoo Community and Odoo Enterprise.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Graph and pivot views


Graph views provide a graphical view of the data, in the form of a chart. The current fields available in the To-do Tasks are not good candidates for a chart, so we will add one to use on such a view.

In the TodoTask class, at the todo_ui/models/todo_model.py file, add:

effort_estimate = fields.Integer('Effort Estimate') 

It also needs to be added to the To-do Task form, so that we can add values for it on the existing records, and are able to check this new view.

Now let's add the To-Do Tasks graph view:

<record id="view_graph_todo_task" model="ir.ui.view"> 
  <field name="model">todo.task</field> 
    <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
      <graph type="bar"> 
        <field name="stage_id" /> 
        <field name="effort_estimate" type="measure" /> 
      </graph> 
    </field> 
</record> 

The graph view element can have a type attribute that can be set to bar...