Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Form views

Next, we will create the form view:

1. Create another View record, using the following values:

• • View Name: To-do Form View
  • View Type: Form
  • Model: x_todo_item

If we don't specify the View Type, it will be auto-detected from the view definition.

2. In the Architecture tab, type the following XML code:

<form>  <group>    <field name="x_name" />    <field name="x_is_done" />    <field name="x_work_team_ids"            widget="many2many_tags"            context="{'default_x_is_work_team': True}" />  </group></form>

The form view structure has a root <form> element, containing elements such as <field>, among others that we will learn about in Chapter 10, Backend Views – Design the User Interface. Here, we also chose a specific widget for the work team field, to ...