Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Extending QWeb Templates

To modify the actual presentation of the web page, we need to extend the QWeb template being used.

We will be extending the library_app.book_list_template to show additional information on the books that are not available.

Add the library_member/views/book_list_template.xml file by using the following code:

<odoo>  <template id="book_list_extended"            name="Extended Book List"            inherit_id="library_app.book_list_template">    <xpath expr="//span[@t-field='book.publisher_id']" position="after">      <t t-if="not book.is_available">        <b>(Not Available)</b>      </t>    </xpath>  </template></odoo>

Web page templates are XML documents, just like the other Odoo View types, and we can use xpath to locate elements and then manipulate them, just ...