Smart List Column Reorder

Smart List Column Reorder is a module we build to close that gap cleanly. It hooks into the OWL list renderer so that column headers become drag handles: a user grabs a header, drops it where they want, and the layout updates immediately — no page reload, no developer involvement. The chosen order is persisted per user and per model (optionally per action/view) in a small backing model such as smart.list.column.pref, written through the standard ORM with create/write and read back when the list mounts. Because persistence is scoped to res.users, one person reordering the Sales Orders list never disturbs a colleague's view. We wire access with ir.model.access.csv plus a record rule so users can only read and write their own preference rows, and we expose a small "reset to default" control that deletes the stored preference and falls back to the original view order.

Technically, the work sits mostly in the web client: an OWL/JS patch of the list header component for the drag interaction, a JSON-RPC round trip to save the new column sequence, and a compute-light Python model to store it. We keep the base view XML untouched — no studio overrides, no brittle field re-ordering in the <list> arch — so your existing views, reports, and automations are unaffected and future Odoo updates apply normally. The behavior degrades safely: if a stored column no longer exists (a field was removed) it is ignored, and unknown columns simply render in their default slot. We can optionally add admin-defined "locked" columns that users may not move, group-level default layouts pushed to a team, and an export of a user's layout so a new hire can inherit a proven configuration. It is built and validated against Odoo 17.0, 18.0, and 19.0, and works on Community and Enterprise (Enterprise's extra list widgets are respected, not overridden).

Delivery is build-to-order: after a short scoping call we confirm exactly which models get the behavior, whether you want per-view or per-model scoping, and any locked/team-default rules, then we build, code-review, and test the module on a staging copy of your database before install. Typical delivery is 2–4 weeks from confirmed scope. You receive the full installable source, so nothing is a black box. Pricing starts from $249 (indicative, single-company base scope); the number of target models, per-view versus per-model scoping, team-default and locked-column rules, and multi-company deployment increase the quoted scope. We provide a fixed quote after the scoping call.