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Daniel Reis
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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Adding menu items

Menu items are the starting point for user interface navigation. They form a hierarchical structure, where the top-level items represent applications, and the level below is the application main menu. Further sub-menu levels can be added.

Menu items with no sub-menus are actionable and can trigger an action that tells the web client what to do, such as opening a view.

Menu items are stored in the ir.ui.menu model and can be browsed via the Settings | Technical | User Interface | Menu Items menu.

The library_app add-on module created a top-level menu for the library books, while the library_checkout add-on module added the menu items for the checkouts and checkout stages. These are both implemented in library_checkout/views/library_menu.xml.

This is the XML for the checkout menu item:

    <menuitem id="menu_library_checkout"
              name="...
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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