Grid to Form

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Hi All,
As a general question, how do we tell a app to open up a specify form when clicked on the « edit-icon ».

For example,
View : supplier-catalog-grid

Action-view

I don’t see it saying which form to open, upon clicking on the « edit » icon.

Thanks,
Andrew

2

Hello,

In order to access object views, we need an application menu. The menu is defined using XML syntax along with views & view actions.

The <menuitem> is used to define a menu item. The application menu is hierarchical so menu items can be organized as parent-child.

Further, The view action is used to open object views. The view actions are used to define the application menu.

The <action-view> is used to define the action views.

For Example:

<menuitem name="menu-contact-friends"
  title="All Contact"
  action="contact.all"/>

<action-view name="contact.all" title="Contacts"
  model="com.axelor.contact.db.Contact"> 
  <view type="grid" name="contact-grid"/> 
  <view type="form" name="contact-form"/> 
</action-view>

In this way, we could create menu items, and connect the specific type of view to link to the menu item.

And the « edit-icon » of the grid opens the form mentioned in the ‹ action-view ›