Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Business document form views

The preceding section provided a basic form view, but we can make some improvements to it. For document models, Odoo has a presentation style that mimics a paper page. This form contains two elements: <header>, to contain action buttons, and <sheet>, to contain data fields.

We can now replace the basic <form> defined in the previous section with this one:

<form> 
  <header> 
    <!-- Buttons will go here --> 
  </header> 
  <sheet> 
    <!-- Content goes here: --> 
    <group>      <field name="name" />       <field name="author_ids" widget="many2many_tags" />       <field name="publisher_id" />       <field name="date_published" />       <field name="isbn" />       <field name="active" />       <field name="image" widget="image" />     </group>   </sheet> 
</form>