Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Creating the form view

All views are stored in the database, in the ir.ui.view model. To add a view to a module, we declare a <record> element describing the view in an XML file, which is to be loaded into the database when the module is installed.

Add this new views/book_view.xml file to define the form view:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<odoo> 
  <record id="view_form_book" model="ir.ui.view"> 
    <field name="name">Book Form</field> 
    <field name="model">library.book</field> 
    <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
      <form string="Book">
        <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" ...