Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Adding list and search views

When viewing a model in list mode, a <tree> view is used. Tree views are capable of displaying lines organized in hierarchies, but most of the time, they are used to display plain lists.

We can add the following <tree> view definition to book_view.xml:

<record id="view_tree_book" model="ir.ui.view"> 
  <field name="name">Book List</field> 
  <field name="model">library.book</field> 
  <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
    <tree> 
      <field name="name"/> 
      <field name="author_ids" widget="many2many_tags" />      <field name="publisher_id"/> 
      <field name="date_published"/>

    </tree> 
  </field> 
</record> 

This defines a list with four columns: name, author_ids, publisher_id, and date_published.

At the top-right corner of the list, Odoo displays ...