Setup and Widget Start - nni-odoo/howtos GitHub Wiki

_References: defining module, client action.

Setup

All the assets, related to xml and scss files should be included in the assets.xml file and inlcude it in manifest under data.

Creating Widget/Client Action

Every widgets in js should be put on static/src/js/ and include in assets.xml. Define the widget. declare imports before anything.

Client action is an extension of widget such that you can register the client action to open it as a view. Client action is created through AbstractAction and defining template which should be an existing template in xml, with appropriate t-name.

Don't forget to add it to action registry. You can refer to it inside menuitem with action.