In this chapter, we will cover the following recipe:

• Adding a menu item and window actions
• Having an action open a specific view
• Adding content and widgets to a form view
• Adding buttons to forms
• Passing parameters to forms and actions – Context
• Defining filters on record lists – Domain
• Defining list views
• Defining search views
• Displaying attachments on the side of the form view
• Changing existing views – view inheritance
• Defining document-style forms
• Dynamic form elements using attrs
• Defining embedded views
• Defining kanban views
• Showing kanban cards in columns according to their state
• Defining calendar and gantt views
• Defining graph and pivot views
• Defining the cohort view
• Defining the dashboard view

Throughout this chapter, we will assume that you have a database with the base add-on installed and an empty Odoo add-on module where you can add XML code from the recipes to a data file referenced in the add-on's manifest. Refer to Chapter 4, Creating Odoo Add-On Modules, for more information on how to activate changes in your add-on.