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Miscellaneous Settings

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Tools License: AGPL-3

Miscellaneous settings to be an anchor for your custom settings

Use case : you want your users to find all the settings they need to manage their activity over time on a single, dedicated page.

auto_awesome What this module does

AI-generated from the code · Odoo 16.0

Adds a new "Miscellaneous" block to the Odoo Settings page, giving developers and integrators a dedicated place to group their own custom settings.

This module does not add any business feature by itself. It only creates an empty section on the standard Settings screen so that other custom modules can place their own options there.

What users see: - A new block labelled "Miscellaneous" appears inside the Settings page, alongside the other application settings blocks. - The block is currently empty; it contains no fields, buttons or options of its own.

How it works: - The module extends the standard settings form (res.config.settings) by inserting a new settings block into it. - It also defines a window action named "Settings" that opens the settings form, so the block can be reached directly.

What it touches: - Only the configuration screen (res.config.settings) is modified. No business documents, sales, stock, accounting or messaging features are affected. - No automatic checks, computations, default values, restrictions, emails or scheduled jobs are added.

In short, it is a placeholder/anchor: useful only when other modules add their own fields into this "Miscellaneous" block, so that all extra settings can be found on one page.

Depends on

base

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Availability by version

Reviewed: 2026-11-03
Confirmed (verified in repository and branch) Estimated (unverified) No information

Confirmation status: 1 confirmed, 8 with no information of 9 versions.

Sources · Odoo 16.0

Confirmed on 2026-11-03 in branch 16.0 of OCA/server-ux.

terminal Installation and usage

OCA documentation · Odoo 16.0

Configuration

Source · Odoo 16.0

You can override like here

<record id="res_config_settings_view_form" model="ir.ui.view">
    <field name="model">res.config.settings</field>
    <field name="priority" eval="200"/>
    <field name="inherit_id" ref="misc_settings.res_config_settings_view_form"/>
    <field name="arch" type="xml">
        <xpath expr="//div[@data-key='misc_settings']" position="inside">
            <h2>My Section</h2>
            <div class="row mt16 o_settings_container" name="my_section">
                Complete here
            </div>
        </xpath>
    </field>
</record>

No verified information in OCA: Installation, Usage.

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