Backend Views

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Adding a menu item and window action
• Having an action open a specific view
• Adding content and widgets to a form view
• Adding buttons to forms
• Passing parameters to forms and actions – Context
• Defining filters on record lists – Domain
• List views
• Search views
• Changing existing views – View inheritance
• Document-style forms
• Dynamic form elements using attrs
• Embedded views
• Kanban views
• Showing kanban cards in columns according to their state
• Calendar and gantt views
• Graph and pivot views

Throughout this chapter, we will assume that you have a database with the base addon installed and an empty Odoo addon module where you add XML code from the recipes to a data file referenced in the addon's manifest. Refer to Chapter 4, Creating Odoo Addon Modules, for how to activate changes in your addon.