Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Creating menu items

We now have a Model to store the To-do Items, and want to have it available in the user interface. Adding a menu item will achieve that.

We will create a top-level menu item that directly opens the to-do list. Some apps, such as Contacts, can work like this, but others have submenu items, shown in the top bar.

Changes in Odoo 12In the community edition, the menu items below the first level are now shown in the top bar, like in the EE. In previous versions, the CE presented these menu items on the left-hand side of the screen.

Menu definitions are in the Settings application, in Technical | User Interface | Menu Items:

Create a new menu item using the following values:

1. Menu: To-do
2. Parent Menu: (empty)
3. In the Action ...