Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

Adding list and search views

When viewing a model in list mode, a <tree> view is used. Tree views are capable of displaying lines organized in hierarchies, but most of the time they are used to display plain lists.

We can add the following <tree> view definition to todo_view.xml:

<record id="view_tree_todo_task" model="ir.ui.view"> 
  <field name="name">To-do Task Tree</field> 
  <field name="model">todo.task</field> 
  <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
    <tree colors="decoration-muted:is_done==True"> 
      <field name="name"/> 
      <field name="is_done"/> 
    </tree> 
  </field> 
</record> 

This defines a list with only two columns: name and is_done. We also added a nice touch: the lines for done tasks (is_done==True) are shown as grayed out. This is done by applying ...