Adding content and widgets to a form view

The preceding recipe showed how to pick a specific view for an action. Now, we'll demonstrate how to make the form we defined earlier more useful.

How to do it...

1. Define the form view basic structure:

<record id="form_all_customers" model="ir.ui.view"> 
    <field name="name">All customers</field> 
    <field name="model">res.partner</field> 
    <field name="arch" type="xml"> 
        <form> 
            <!--form content goes here --> 
        </form> 
    </field> 
</record>

2. To add a head bar usually used for action buttons and stage pipeline, add this inside the form:

<header> 
<button type="object" name="open_commercial_entity" 
        string="Open commercial partner"
class="btn-primary" />
</header> 

3. Add fields to the form, using group tags to visually organize them:

<group string="Content" name="my_content"> 
    <field name="name" /> 
    <field name...