How to Add New Item in CogMenu in Odoo 17
- 1. How to Add New Item in CogMenu in Odoo 17 Enterprise
- 2. Introduction Enterprise In Odoo 17, CogMenu (or Configuration Menu) is a feature typically found in various modules that allows users to configure settings related to that specific module. It has a cogwheel like icon usually located on the top left side of the screen. By default, the features for Importing and Exporting will be available inside the menu.
- 3. Enterprise For example, this is the CogMenu that we can see in Sales module
- 4. Enterprise To create a new custom menu inside this Cogmenu of Odoo 17, we can just create a new module which will have a structure like
- 5. Enterprise The file cog_menu.js have the javascript code /**@odoo-module **/ import { DropdownItem } from "@web/core/dropdown/dropdown_item"; import { registry } from "@web/core/registry"; const { Component } = owl; const cogMenuRegistry = registry.category("cogMenu"); export class CogMenu extends Component { async actionCustomMenu() { var currentModel = this.env.searchModel.resModel console.log(currentModel) // Include your action for the menu here... } } CogMenu.template = "cog_menu_item.NewOption"; CogMenu.components = { DropdownItem }; export const CogMenuItem = { Component: CogMenu, groupNumber: 20, isDisplayed: ({ config }) => config.viewType != "form", }; cogMenuRegistry.add("custom-menu", CogMenuItem, { sequence: 10 });
- 6. Enterprise The file cog_menu.xml have the xml code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <templates xml:space="preserve"> <t t-name="cog_menu_item.NewOption" owl="1"> <DropdownItem class="'o_cog_menu'" onSelected.bind="actionCustomMenu"> Custom Menu </DropdownItem> </t> </templates>
- 7. Enterprise This will display the new menu item on the Cog menu as
- 8. Enterprise We have written the bind method js code for the menu to show the current model’s name on the console. So, on clicking the new menu item and inspecting the page to get the console, we can see the current module name like
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