Odoo Element Cannot be Located in Parent View

Tek Siong, Hock
Mar 8, 2024
1 min read

Sometimes, after you've added a new field to the existing view, by inheriting the view, you may encountered the following error, when upgrading the module.

 Element 'XXXXX' cannot be located in parent view

The following may be the root-cause:

Syntax Error in your xpath.
Missing the dependent module in the manifest file.
The sequence of the data (view) in the manifest file.

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