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I had some problems with this until I read this post by Martin Trigaux in the mailing list:

https://www.odoo.com/groups/community-59/community-8908652

Perhaps is a good idea to update the docs.

Hello, Sorry to contradict you but it's actually still name_get that you should override. The initial intended behaviour was indeed to have display_name as replacement of name_get. However there were lot's of issues with the initial implementation and it was not backward compatible with the old api and we have to partially go back to old behaviour[1].

So the current behaviour of the name_get/display_name is the following:

name_get is still the main function used for rendering display_name is a computed field that will use name_get If you want to change both, you should still override name_get (see event for example[2]).

Changing the method of display_name would affect only display_name, not name_get (can be what we want[3] but usually not).

We may change one day to fully use display_name and drop name_get but that means breaking the backward-compatibility.

Hope it's clear.

[1] https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/f138aa26085d103a88dbd8bb73fb8bf5517298ad

[2] https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/8.0/addons/event/event.py#L194

[3] https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/8.0/openerp/addons/base/res/res_partner.py#L232

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Martin Trigaux Odoo (Formerly OpenERP)