Creating Form Buttons and Actions

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Creating form buttons and actions

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In this tutorial I will learn you how to create buttons in views. The form buttons are always shown at the

top of the form and are very handy to perform actions on your current record. After this tutorial you can

create your own buttons and actions behind the buttons.

1. Creating your model and fields

The rst step that you need to do is to create a model and add the elds you need. In my example I will

just create a simple form with two elds named ‘name’ and ‘password’. So my model loos lie this!

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This creates a new model in the database named ‘button.demo’ and will contain two custom added elds!

‘name’ and ‘password’. The eld ‘name’ will be a re6uired eld and by default it will contain the text ‘5lic

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2. Creating the view with buttons

After the model elds have been made it is time to create your view. 8or this example I will create a simple

form view that shows these two elds and I will add three buttons!

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So how exactly does Bdoo now that the buttons need to be at the top of the formC >ecause of the header

ta,7 Dverythin, within this ta, will be shown at the top of your form. So this creates three buttons but

how do we tri,,er an action from this buttonC Eave a closer loo at the code for one of those buttons!

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3. Creating actions behind the buttons

Fow that the view is built and we ,ave all buttons a name that maes the Hython ,o oJ we should create

the Hython functions7 Kets rst create one for the ‘,enerate/record/name’ button!

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self is denin, the current record so this means we can access anythin, from that record and modify it.

The self.write will update the values for this record in the database. >y sayin, ‘name’! we are tellin, to

update the eld ‘name’ in the view. In this example I created a simple function that ,enerates a random

name between 9 and "& characters lon,.

Tip: Lapi.one is used for one record and cannot be used for multiple records. If you’d want this you would

need Lapi.multi.

If you would now clic on the button a name would be ,enerated from this function and would be showndirectly on the view.

Fow create the second function ‘,enerate/record/password’ for the button @enerate passwordG!


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This function does almost the same as the previous but it will ,enerate a password between "# and "&

characters and write it on the eld ‘password’ in place of ‘name’.

Fext lets create our third function ‘clear/record/data’ for the button ‘5lear data’. This function will clear all

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>uttons are very handy in Bdoo and can do just about anythin,. It is easy to perform actions for the user

chan,e elds show new views R

Tip: Qou can also use buttons in combination with attrs and ows to mae them even more useful7 Qou can

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Creating and managing statusbars selections! in "doo

In this tutorial I will learn you how to create and manage statusbars. Statusbars are selections (on database level) which

are visually respresented by Odoo. They give you the ability to follow a specific flow and can be very handy to show you

the progress that has been made. After this tutorial you can create and manage your own statusbars.

In this example I will create a new form view which contains a statusbar and I’ll add buttons on the form which change the

state of the record.

1. Creating the model and fields

The first step is to create a model (if you don’t have one yet) and to add a selection field:

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This creates a new model with the name ‘statusbar.demo’ which contains two fields, the field ‘name’ and the field ‘state’.

The state field is of the type selection, which means it will contain multiple values which can be chosen. A selection is

always built up in the same way, the first part if the database name and the second part is the text that will be shown to the

user. For example:

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If you wish to change the state to ‘In progress’ you will need to tell the database about ‘progress’, since this is the name

the database listens to, while the name shown to the user will be ‘In progress’.

This is all you need on the database level. You have your selection values in the database so you only need to show them

to the user now!

2. Creating the view

Now that you have the database part ready it is time to create your view. In this example I will create a simple form viewwhich shows the field ‘name’ and the statusbar with some buttons:


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In this code example it will create four buttons and it will also show the field ‘state’. The field ‘state’ has a widget set to it

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bar at the top of your Odoo screen:

Now there is one more thing I should explain, the buttons. By using those buttons we will modify in which state we are on

the statusbar (selection) and we will control the whole flow. Let us take the button ‘In progress’ as an example to explain

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Now that the view is ready and you have buttons they should also trigger something. Open up your Python file and create

a function for all of those button names you have. Every button will have a separate Python function and will modify the

current record with a write. In this tutorial I will create four functions that simply change the state of what the current record

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on the buttons. For example when I save my record and set it to in progress:

4. Conclusion

Statusbars (selections) are very handy in Odoo and give you the ability to show the progress to the user in a visual way.

Statusbars are ideal to use in combination with buttons which will modify the state where a record is in. Another great

thing about statusbars is that they’re always at the exact same location and you can find out what the progress is within

seconds.

Do you want to try a demo module and see the source code of this tutorial? Qou can view on my @ithub account.

Has this tutorial helped you, do you have any feedback or questions? Post away!

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Creating many2many drag and drop handle! widget in "doo

In this tutorial I will learn you how to create a handle wid,et. A handle wid,et ,ives you the option to re*

order lines in a many#many main, records dra, and droppable. This is a very hand feature to order

items and eventually chan,e the order on reports for example.

An example from before re*arran,in, a many#many and after!


8or a dra, and drop 0handle2 wid,et you will need a many#many and for havin, a many#many you need to

create a lin to another table. The rst step is to create a new table in case you don’t already have one or

otherwise you can sip to part #. The table where you want to lin your many#many to needs atleast one

eld 0such as name2 and what you absolutely need is a eld named ‘se6uence’. The se6uence eld is an

inte,er and will eep trac of the order on your many#many. 8or example!


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then created a new eld and created a lin to the table sale.order.handle. I’ve also created a default which

lins to a function. The idea behind this is to automatically ll the many#many handle with all the datafrom the model sale.order.handle. Bfcourse you don’t have to this is just for the demo.

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There isn’t to much diJerence with a normal many#many there are just three thin,s you should always

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". 5reate your own tree to render the many#many correctly.

#. always add the eld ‘se6uence’ in this tree.$. call the wid,et with wid,et3GhandleG. This will mae the many#many dra, and droppable.

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o you want to see the source code or try this module for yourselfC Qou can download ? view it on @ithub.

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$path e%pressions in "doo &

In this tutorial I will learn you how to use xpath expressions. Xpath expressions ,ive you the ability to add

new pa,es ,roups elds R to an already existin, view. hen you inherit a currently existin, view in a

module and want to extend it you will absolutely need xpath expressions. In this sample I will add new

pa,es ,roups and elds to the view under sales = products.

Tip:view my sample xpath module.

1. Create new fields

The rst step is to create new elds inside your model. 8or example!

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product module which is showed under sales = products. Qou can reference another view with the ref3GG

ta,. The rst step is to nd the name of the view you want and then addin, the module name in front of it.

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#. Bpen up the folder views and then open the X1K leim_odoo_support.xml. In this le you can directly

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'nheriting and modifying ()eb reports

In this tutorial you will learn how to inherit already existin, Web reports in a custom module. After thistutorial you will be able to inherit and modify any already existin, Web report in Bdoo7

In this example I will modify the default Wuotation ? order report throu,h inheritance and I will remove a

few elements from the report.

1. Creating a new module

The rst step is to create a new module. The correct behaviour in Bdoo is to always inherit don’t ever

modify existin, les. Start by creatin, yourself a new module.Tip: use the scaJold command from Bdoo7

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2. Creating your $*+ file

The next step is to open up your X1K le 0in my example templates.xml2 and to create a new record to

inherit the report. To inherit a report you have to now in which module it is and what the ori,inal X1K id of

the report is. So how do you nd thisC

The easiest way is to ,o to ‘Settin,s’ = ‘Neports’ = ‘Neports’ and to search the report you want to modify.

In this tutorial this will be the 6uotation?order report so I’ll search for ‘Brder’!


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Fow that you’ve found your report clic on it. This will open a new view where you will nd all the technical

information you need7 8or example with the 6uotation report!

At the ri,ht you will see a clicable lin named ‘Search associated Web views’. 5lic on it. This will show

you a list of all records that are associated to this specic report. In the example of the 6uotation report!

So this usually shows you two X1K records. Eow do you now which one you needC The one that ends with

/document is the correct X1K record that you need to inherit. Znder the column ‘Dxternal I’ you will see

there is an uni6ue name in this example sale.report/saleorder/document. The rst part of this text 0sale2


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is the module where the report is from the second part 0report/saleorder/document2 is the name of the

report that you want to inherit and modify.

Nemember this value and now open up your X1K le. To inherit a Web report you need two thin,s! an

uni6ue template id and the inherit/id. The template id can be chosen by yourself just mae sure its

uni6ue. The inherit/id should contain the value you’ve just found on your report

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If you would now print out the report you would ,et this as a result!

3. #dding the dependency for the e%ternal ()eb report

The next and nal step is to add a dependency. >ecause this Web report is inside another module Bdoo

has to now about this module and its content so you should add a dependency. ithout this your modulewill not wor and you will ,et errors.

Bpen up your //openerp//.py le in your custom module and nd the line with depends.

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on,change event in "doo &

In this tutorial I will learn you how to create an on/chan,e event that automatically updates a eld when

another eld chan,es. In this sample I will create two new elds under sales = products in the tab

‘Hrocurements’. hen a value chan,es on one of the two elds a third eld will be updated with the total

of the other two elds.

1. Creating new fields

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>oth these elds are for numbers. After addin, your new elds you need to add them to the view.

2. #dd fields to view

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hen you clic on the button the lo,,in, statements will be printed in your terminal. 8or example with my

function!

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• log_level! any value in the list of U‘debu,/rpc/answer’ ‘debu,/rpc’ ‘debu,’ ‘debu,/s6l’ ‘info’

‘warn’ ‘error’ ‘critical’V. Bdoo chan,ed the lo,/level meanin, here because these level values are

mapped to a set of predened ‘module!lo,/level’ pairs.

• log_handler! can be a list of ‘module!lo,/level’ pairs. The default value is ‘!IF8B’ [ it means the

default lo,,in, level is ‘IF8B’ for all modules.

• logrotate! True?8alse. If True create a daily lo, le and eep $: les.

• log_db! True?8alse. If this is set to ‘True’ the lo,,in, will also be written to the ‘ir/lo,,in,’ table in the

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hen you now ,o to this location you will see there is a new lo,le created and that it is automatically

lled with the data that you dened!



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5reatin, many#many dra, and drop 0handle2 wid,et in Bdoo \ZKQ "# #:"& QDFTED''' KDA]D A 5B11DFT

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In this tutorial I will learn you how to create a handle wid,et. A handle wid,et ,ives you the option to re*

order lines in a many#many main, records dra, and droppable. This is a very hand feature to order

items and eventually chan,e the order on reports for example.

An example from before re*arran,in, a many#many and after!


8or a dra, and drop 0handle2 wid,et you will need a many#many and for havin, a many#many you need to

create a lin to another table. The rst step is to create a new table in case you don’t already have one or

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otherwise you can sip to part #. The table where you want to lin your many#many to needs atleast one

eld 0such as name2 and what you absolutely need is a eld named ‘se6uence’. The se6uence eld is an

inte,er and will eep trac of the order on your many#many. 8or example!

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class many#many/default/data/demo0models.1odel2! /name 3 4sale.order.handle4 /description 3 41odel for many#many 0handle24 /order 3 4se6uence4

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class print/order/sample0models.1odel2! def /,et/default/print/order/ids0self2! return self.pool.,et04sale.order.handle42.search0self.env.cr self.env.uid UV2

/inherit 3 4sale.order4 print/handle/ids 3 elds.1any#many04sale.order.handle44sale/handle44order/id44order/handle/id441any#many order4help34This could beused to create a print order for your report for example.This is a dra, an drop 0handle2 wid,et.4default3/,et/default/print/order/ids2

As you can see I’ve inherited the model sale.order since I want to create my many#many in this model. I

then created a new eld and created a lin to the table sale.order.handle. I’ve also created a default which

lins to a function. The idea behind this is to automatically ll the many#many handle with all the data

from the model sale.order.handle. Bfcourse you don’t have to this is just for the demo.

Tip: But of safety uses you should never create a table lon,er than "' characters in a many#many7 The

post,reSWK database cannot handle a many#many lin lon,er than '% characters in total. 8or more

information see this bu, report.


Fow that you’ve created both your model and the many#many you only need to add the many#many to

your view. The code will loo lie this!

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result will loo somethin, lie this!



Automatically ll 1any#many in Bdoo

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class print/order/sample0models.1odel2! def /,et/default/print/order/ids0self2!

cr 3 self.pool.cursor02self.env

return self.pool.,et04sale.order.printorder42.search0cr self.env.uid UV2

/inherit 3 4sale.order4 print/order/ids 3 elds.1any#many04sale.order.printorder44sale/order/print44print/id44order/print/id44Hrint order4help34This could be usedto create a print order for your report for example.4default3/,et/default/print/order/ids2

As you can see there is a default3/,et/default/print/order/ids which lins to a function in the class. This

function will automatically ,et all data from the model sale.order.printorder thans to self.pool. After thepool ,ot all records we will return all the data and it will be added to the many#many.

Fow lets create a view that shows the many#many!

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;record id3


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;eld name3


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'#(

TIP: Add the lename defaultdata.xml to //openerp//py under ‘data’.

hen the module is installed these records will be automatically created in the database and will never be

updated thans to the noupdate3G"^. hen you need a many#many lled with default data that always

has to be the same this is perfect. If this is not the case simply create a new view where users can create

new records in to the model sale.order.printorder7

o you want to see the source code or try this module outC Qou can download ? view it on @ithub7


Installin, default data in Bdoo moduleIn this tutorial I will learn you how to install data in a module by default. This will mean that data is

automatically inserted in the database whenever you would install this module. In some cases this is very

handy because you need some default values inserted when the module is installed.

1. #dding a new $*+ file to the module

The rst thin, you need to do is create a new X1K le in your custom module for example demodata.xml

and to add the lename to //openerp//.py. An example of my //openerp//.py le!

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Create default data

After you’ve added the location to the le 0to //openerp//.py2 you should create the data for the le. Bpen

up your custom module ,o in to the folder data and edit your X1K le. The structure is always the same. Qou ,ive the record a name 0this can be anythin, mae sure its uni6ue2 and add the name of the model

where you want data installed in. Then add a eld for every eld you have in the model which you want to

ll with data. The followin, is an example that creates a record in the model ‘demo.default.data’ when you

install the module!


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hen you would now install this module it will automatically install the records that are dened.

ant to see an example module where you can see how everythin, worsC Qou can download?view it on

@ithub7

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