Looking for help to hook a button called "Convert to Lead" from my custom form view passing values to create a new lead

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Looking for help to hook a button called "Convert to Lead" from my custom form view, on clicking of which should take me to the create lead form and pre-populate the appropriate fields from my custom document into the create lead document and be able to create a new lead.
The background is that I have integrated the CRM telephone call logs to a listview into my Odoo from a 3rd party telephone service, I am trying to implement a feature to convert a selected call log into a lead.
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Sehrish · Accepted Answer

Similarly you can redirect to tree view on button click: http://learnopenerp.blogspot.com/2017/10/redirect-to-tree-view-from-button-click.html [1]

[1] http://learnopenerp.blogspot.com/2017/10/redirect-to-tree-view-from-button-click.html

Cybrosys Techno Solutions Pvt.Ltd · Answer

Hi,
You can do something like this, on the button click, call a function and from the function, you can return the desired view to display, to get the default values in it, use context.

@api.multi
def  function_name ( self ):
view_id = self .env.ref( 'id_of_the_form' ).id
context = { 'field_1' : self .field_1}
return {
'name' : 'A Name' ,
'view_type' : 'form' ,
'view_mode' : 'tree' ,
'views' : [(view_id ,  'form' )] ,
'res_model' : 'name_of_model_to_display' ,
'view_id' : view_id ,
'type' : 'ir

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