Create Window Action and Menuitem in Odoo13

 In this article, you will learn how to create a window action and menu item in Odoo13. You will also learn different types of actions provided by Odoo13.

Type of Action in Odoo13

Name	Model
Server Actions	ir.actions.server (v8)
Window Actions	ir.actions.act_window
URL Actions	ir.actions.act_url
Client Actions	ir.actions.client
Report Actions	ir.actions.report (v8)
Automated or Scheduled Actions	ir.cron (v8)

In this article, we are going to create window action, rest of the actions are explained later.

What is Window Action

Whenever we click on the menu window action triggers. Window Action is the most commonly used action. When we click on the menu it calls window action, then window action will decide which views (form view, tree view, kanban view) has to be triggered to display model data. 

Below is the code for window action in Odoo13.

Remember to create window action (act_window) we need a model, If you have not created model yet than I have recommended you to create a new model.

Recommend:

Create a New Model in Odoo13

Create an Action Window

Open views.xml file under module_name >> views >> views.xml and paste below code, don't forgot to register that file in __manifest.py__.

Recommend:

How to Create Action Window and Menuitem in Odoo8

Sr.No	View Name
1	Form View (v8)
2	Tree or List View (v8)
3	Kanban View

Below table shows purpose of each field in detail. 

Name	Description
id	Unique XML id for act_window
name	Readable Name related to your Menu
res_model	Model for this act_window
view_mode	Comma separated list of views like (tree,form,kanban)
view_ids	By using this we can define different specific views for same model
context	By using this we can pass additional information or data to our view
domain	To show filtered record, we can pass domain to our view
target	To open your view in different mode like (new, current, fullscreen, main or inline)

Create Menuitem

Create a new file menus.xml under module_name >> views >> views.xml and paste below code, don't forgot to register that file in __manifest.py__.

The above code will create Main Menu, and different Sub Menus as you can show in the above image.