Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

The stage pipeline

Next, we'll add to the header a status bar widget, showing the stage the document is in. Technically, it's a <field> element for the stage_id field using the statusbar widget:

<header>  
  <field name="state" invisible="True" />
  <button name="do_clear_done" type="object" 
    string="Clear Done"    states="open,cancel"    class="oe_highlight" />
  <field name="stage_id"
    widget="statusbar"  
    clickable="True"
    options="{'fold_field': 'fold'}" />
</header>

This adds a stage pipeline widget to the header. It uses the statusbar widget on a field that represents the point in the life cycle where the document is currently at. This is usually a state selection field or a stage many-to-one field. These two fields can be found across several ...