Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Business document views

Much of the data recorded in a business application can be represented as a paper document. For a more intuitive user interface, form views can mimic these paper documents.

For example, in our app, we can think of a checkout as something that has a paper form to fill out. We'll provide a form view that follows this design.

We should edit the library_checkout/views/chceckout_view.xml file and change the form view record to have the basic skeleton of a business document view:

<record id="view_form_checkout" model="ir.ui.view">   <field name="model">library.checkout</field> 
  <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
    <form> 
      <header>  
        <!-- To add buttons and status widget -->
      </header>
      <sheet> 
        <!-- To add form content -->
 </sheet> ...