Odoo 10 Development Essentials

View semantic components

We have seen how to organize the content in a form, using structural components such as header, group, and notebook. Now we can take a closer look at the semantic components, fields and buttons, and what we can do with them.

Fields

View fields have a few attributes available for them. Most of them have values taken from their definition in the model, but these can be overridden in the view.

Attributes that are generic, and do not depend on the field type, are:

• name identifies the field database name.
• string is the label text, to be used if we want to override the label text provided by the model definition.
• help is a tooltip text shown when you hover the pointer over the field, and allows to override the help text provided by ...