he already given the action for the menu

Check that you mention the inherited module name in your manifest file.

'depends': [

'base',

'hr',

'hr_contract',

'hr_payroll',

],

here is my _manifest_.py

any error in error log ?

ParseError: "External ID not found in the system: hr_module.action_view_hr_module_reports_form" while parsing /home/dev1/odoo-10.0/custom_addons/hr_module/views/payroll_payslips_view.xml:5, near

<menuitem id="menu_test_child" parent="menu_test" name="My Menu" action="action_view_hr_module_reports_form"/> gives me this error

try to change to tree instead of form,

<field name="view_type">tree</field>

and did you have defined the model , hr_module.reports ?

yes in my module.py defined like

class hr_payroll_reports(models.Model):

name = 'hr_module.reports'

_description = 'Reports'

here is my full code,

<data>

<menuitem id="menu_test" parent="hr_payroll.menu_hr_payroll_root" name="Test Module Parent"/>

<record id="view_hr_module_reports_tree" model="ir.ui.view">

<field name="name">hr_module.reports.tree</field>

<field name="model">hr_module.reports</field>

<field name="arch" type="xml">

<tree string="Payslips Batches">

<field name="name"/>

<field name="date_start"/>

<field name="credit_note"/>

</tree>

</field>

</record>

<record id="action_view_hr_module_reports_form" model="ir.actions.act_window">

<field name="name">Employee Payslips</field>

<field name="res_model">hr_module.reports</field>

<field name="view_type">tree</field>

<field name="view_id" ref="view_hr_module_reports_tree"/>

</record>

<menuitem id="menu_test_child" parent="menu_test" name="My Menu" action="action_view_hr_module_reports_form"/>

</data>

models.py

class hr_payroll_reports(models.Model):

name = 'hr_module.reports'

_description = 'Reports'

name = fields.Char(required=True, readonly=True, states={'draft': [('readonly', False)]})

date_start = fields.Date(string='Date From', required=True, readonly=True)

credit_note = fields.Boolean(string='Credit Note', readonly=True,

states={'draft': [('readonly', False)]},

help="If its checked, indicates that all payslips generated from here are refund payslips.")

and gives me this error

Model not found: hr_module.reports

Error context:

View `hr_module.reports.tree`

[view_id: 1114, xml_id: n/a, model: hr_module.reports, parent_id: n/a]

None" while parsing /home/dev1/odoo-10.0/custom_addons/hr_module/views/payroll_payslips_view.xml:6, near

<record id="view_hr_module_reports_tree" model="ir.ui.view">

<field name="name">hr_module.reports.tree</field>

<field name="model">hr_module.reports</field>

<field name="arch" type="xml">

<tree string="Payslips Batches">

<field name="name"/>

<field name="date_start"/>

<field name="credit_note"/>

</tree>

</field>

</record>

py file mentioned in init ?

yes of course

I found the solution, my mistake is class name hr_payroll_reports should be like HrModuleReports, i think in odoo has some method for class name and it is seperating capital letters than put dot between letters. So odoo find and use methods something like that.