Odoo 10 Development Essentials

Designing kanban views

We will be adding the kanban view to the Todo tasks with a new addon module. It would be simpler to add it directly to the todo_ui module. However, for a clearer explanation, we will use a new module and avoid too many, possibly confusing, changes in the already created files.

We will name this new addon module as todo_kanban and create the usual initial files. Edit the descriptor file todo_kanban/__manifest__.py as follows:

{'name': 'To-Do Kanban', 
 'description': 'Kanban board for to-do tasks.', 
 'author': 'Daniel Reis', 
 'depends': ['todo_ui'], 
 'data': ['views/todo_view.xml'] } 

Also add an empty todo_kanban/__init__.py file, to make the directory Python importable, as required for Odoo addon modules.

Next, create the XML file ...