Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

Introducing the todo_stage module

In the previous chapter, we created an app for personal To-Do items. Now we want to take our app to the next level by improving its user interface, including a kanban board. The kanban board is a simple workflow tool that organizes items into columns, where these items flow from the left-hand column to the right, until they are completed. We will organize our tasks into columns, according to their stages, such as Waiting, Ready, Started, or Done. 

We will start by adding the data structures to enable this vision. We need to add stages, and it will be good to add support for tags as well, allowing the tasks to be categorized by subject. In this chapter, we will focus on the data models only. The user interface ...