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Samo Arko

I have a problem in changing the names for odoo addon modules. I've tried with xpath, attributes, but I just can't get it to work.

<xpath expr="//field[@name='manager_id']" position="attributes">
    <attribute name="string">New Field Label</attribute>
</xpath>

<field name="manager_id" position="attributes">
    <attribute name="string">New Field Label</attribute>
</field>

There must be a  way to change the field labels? And is there a way to change it so that it changes in every view the field is used?

EDIT:

code that I tried:

<record model="ir.ui.view" id="view_hr_res_company_form">
	<field name="inherit_id" ref="base.view_company_form" />
	<field name="model">res.company</field>
	<field name="arch" type="xml">
		<xpath expr="//form/sheet/notebook/page/field[@name='company_registry']" position="attributes">
			<attribute name="string">Matična številka</attribute>
		</xpath>
		<xpath expr="//field[@name='vat']" position="after">
			<field name="account_no"/>
			<field name="obcina"/>
			<field name="dejavnost"/>
		</xpath>
	</field>
</record>


  

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Sushma

Hi Samo,

Your approach is correct, you need to check with priorities and also check with inherit_id.

Samo Arko
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can you dumb it down so I could understand :) I edited the question with the code I tried.

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Sushma
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Hi Samo,

You're trying update slovenian string as en_US in view, this is not correct approach better need to do this change into translation file directly.

add in your po file the related field like example:

#. module: <your_module>

#: field: <your_moddel>,field:0

#: field: <your_related_moddel>,field:0

msgid "English"

msgstr "Translation"

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Samo Arko
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Can't change directly into the translation file. Needs to be in the custom module so it's independent from odoo install and it's files. Plus I don't have time to figure out another odoo functionality.

Sushma

You could also change it from odoo ir translation if you're struggling to add it from files

Samo Arko
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Sushma you are correct, but NOT helpful because I don't have time for the correct way, I just need a quick work around. I'll do the correct way, when I start building the next custom module from ground up.

Samo Arko
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you where right in the first comment on my question. The xpath was to complicated. With only //field[@name="<name_of_field>"] it works.

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Vlad Codrin Nafureanu
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You can inherit the model in python 

_inherit='model.name'

and override the field definition to set the string to whatever label you desire

manager_id = fields.Many2one(string='Your preferred label')
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Samo Arko
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It doesn't work, probably because it's translated. Any way to change the translation?

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