The simplicity and visual impact of kanban board make them excellent to support simple business processes. A basic example of a kanban board can have three columns, as shown in the following image: "To Do," "Doing," and "Done," but it can of course be extended to whatever specific process steps we may need:
Photo credits: A Scrum board suggesting using kanban by Jeff.lasovski. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Kanban views are a distinctive Odoo feature, making it easy to implement these boards. Let's learn how to use them.
In form views, we use mostly specific XML elements, such as <field> and <group>, and few HTML elements, such as <h1> or <div>. With kanban views, it's quite the opposite; they are HTML-based templates and support only two Odoo-specific elements, <field> and <button>.
The HTML can be dynamically generated using the QWeb template engine. It processes special tag attributes in HTML elements to produce the...