Add list-form view

issue8185
review255091002

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+* Add list-form view
 * Do not set id for on_change calls if cached
 * Add cache on RPC
 * Remove support for Python 3.4

doc/topics/views/index.rst

@@ -29,12 +29,14 @@ the name of the XML file in the `view` directory:
   </record>
 
 
-There is three types of views:
+There are different types of views:
 
     * Form
 
     * Tree
 
+    * List-Forms
+
     * Graph
 
     * Board
@@ -619,6 +621,16 @@ Display a button.
 
     * ``help``: see in common-attributes-help_
 
+List-Form view
+==============
+
+The list-form views use the same schema as the form views.
+
+List-forms display records as a list of editable forms.
+
+.. note:: The performance of the list-form does not allow to scale well for
+          large number of records
+
 Graph view
 ==========
 

trytond/ir/ui/view.py

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ class View(ModelSQL, ModelView):
             ('graph', 'Graph'),
             ('calendar', 'Calendar'),
             ('board', 'Board'),
+            ('list-form', "List Form"),
             ], 'View Type', select=True,
         domain=[
             If(Bool(Eval('inherit')),
@@ -100,6 +101,8 @@ class View(ModelSQL, ModelView):
         key = (cls.__name__, type_)
         rng = cls._get_rng_cache.get(key)
         if rng is None:
+            if type_ == 'list-form':
+                type_ = 'form'
             rng_name = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), type_ + '.rng')
             with open(rng_name, 'rb') as fp:
                 rng = etree.fromstring(fp.read())