Learn – How to create a Form View in Odoo 8

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In this blog-post, you will learn how to create a Form View in an Odoo 8 module.

What is Form View in Odoo?

• Form views are used to display the data from a single record.
• Forms are used to create and edit single records.
• The root element of a form view is <form>.
• It consists  of regular HTML with additional structural and semantic components.
• It is composed of high-level structure elements (groups, notebooks) and interactive elements (buttons and fields)

Example of a Form View :-

Earlier in my previous blog-post, I had created a Model to collect student’s information. Now I will create a Form View for the student model which will give it a User Interface from where entry can be created or edited.

Code for creating a Form View

<openerp>
	<data>
		<!-- Form View for Student -->
		<record id="student_form_view" model="ir.ui.view">
			<field name="name">student.form.view</field>
			<field name="model">student.student</field>
			<field name="arch" type="xml">
				<form>
					<sheet>
						<field name="image" widget="image" class="oe_left oe_avatar"/>
						 <h2><field name="name" placeholder="Name"/></h2>
						 <group string="Student Information">
						 	<group>
						 		<field name="email"/>
						 		<field name="contact"/>
						 		<field name="dob"/>
						 		<field name="course_id"/>
						 	</group>
						 	<group>
						 		<field name="registration_date"/>
						 		<field name="gender"/>
						 		<field name="is_physically_disabled"/>
						 		<field name="hobby_ids" widget="many2many_tags"></field>
						 	</group>
						 </group>
						 <notebook>
							<page string="Qualification">
								<field name="qualification_ids">
									<form>
										<group>
											<field naame="course_id"/>
									 		<field name="year_cleared"/>
									 		<field name="grade"/>
								 		</group>
									</form>
									<tree>
										<field name="course_id"/>
								 		<field name="year_cleared"/>
								 		<field name="grade"/>
									</tree>
								</field>
							</page>
						</notebook>
					</sheet>
				</form>
			</field>
		</record>
	</data>
</openerp>

Steps for creating Form View in Odoo

• All views are stored in the database, in the ir.model.view model. To add a view in a module, we declare a <record> element describing the view in an XML file that will be loaded into the database when the module is installed.
• The root element of a Form View is <form>
• <sheet> tag is used to give the form a responsive layout
• <group> is used to define column layouts in forms. By default, groups define 2 columns and most direct children of groups take a single column.
• <field> direct children of groups display a label by default, and the label and the field itself have a colspan of 1 each.
• <notebook> defines a tabbed section. Each tab is defined through a page child element.

SnapShot of Eclipse IDE:-

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