Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Designing Kanban views

We will improve the library_checkout module we have been working with to add the Kanban view to the library checkouts.

For this, we'll use a new data file, library_checkout/views/checkout_kanban_view.xml. We need to edit the data key in the __manifest__.py  descriptor file to append this new data file at the end of the list.

In library_checkout/views/library_menu.xml, we can find the window action used in the checkout menu item. We need to make a change to it to enable the additional view types we'll add in this chapter:

    <act_window id="action_library_checkout"      name="Checkouts"      res_model="library.checkout"      view_mode="kanban,tree,form,activity,calendar,graph,pivot"    />

Here, we modify the menu action to include kanban ...