Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

The document sheet

The sheet canvas is the main area of the form where the actual data elements are placed. It's designed to look like an actual paper document, and it's common to see that the records in Odoo are referred to as documents.

Usually, a document sheet structure will have these areas:

• A document title and subtitle at the top-left
• A button box at the top-right corner
• Other document header fields
• A notebook at the bottom, for additional fields organized into tabs or pages

Document lines usually go in the notebook's first page. After the sheet, we usually have the chatter widget, with the document followers, discussion messages, and planned activities.

Let's go through each of these areas.