Learn – How to create a Tree View in Odoo 8 with Example

Greetings Everyone,

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

What is Tree View in Odoo?

• Tree View also known as List View shows multiple records in the form of a list (rows and columns).
• Each row represents a record of the database table.
• Tree View is used to show important data, i.e only some important columns of the model/table.
• You can do various operations on Tree view that is sorting, filter and group by.

Example of a Tree View :-

Earlier in my previous blog-post, I had created a Model to collect student’s information. Then I had created its From View. Now I will create a Tree View for the student model.

Code for creating a Tree View:

<!-- Tree View for Student Information -->
		<record id="student_tree_view" model="ir.ui.view">
			<field name="name">student.tree.view</field>
			<field name="model">student.student</field>
			<field name= "arch" type = "xml">
				<tree string="Student Information">
					<field name="name"/>
					<field name="email"/>
			 		<field name="contact"/>
			 		<field name="dob"/>
			 		<field name="course_id"/>
				</tree>
			</field>
		</record>

Steps for creating Tree 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 an <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 Tree View is <tree>
• Now inside tree tag define all the important fields that you want to add to the tree view.

SnapShot of Eclipse IDE:-

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Further, Learn how to create an Action and its Menuitem in Odoo 8.

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