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I'm using Odoo 18. I have the following models:

  • document.foo

class FooDocument(models.Model):

  _name = 'document.foo'

  _description = 'Foo'


  date = fields.Datetime(

    string='Date',

  )

  number = fields.Char(

    string='Number',

  )

  • document.bar

class BarDocument(models.Model):

  _name = 'document.bar'

  _description = 'Bar'


  date = fields.Datetime(

    string='Date',

  )

  number = fields.Char(

    string='Number',

  )

  • document.invoice
class InvoiceDocument(models.Model):
  _name = 'document.invoice'
  _description = 'Invoice'

  date = fields.Datetime(
    string='Date',
  )
  number = fields.Char(
    string='Number',
  )
  doc_base_name = fields.Selection(
    string='Base Document Type',
    selection=[
      ('document.foo', 'Foo'),
      ('document.bar', 'Bar'),
    ],
    default='document.foo',
  )
  doc_base_id = fields.Many2oneReference(
    string='Base Document',
    model_field='doc_base_name',
  )

Also, I have the following view for document.invoice​​

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

<field name="name">document.invoice.form</field>

<field name="model">document.invoice</field>

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

<form>

<sheet>

<group>

<field name="date" />

<field name="number" />

<field name="doc_base_name" />

<field name="doc_base_id" />

</group>

</sheet>

</form>

</field>

</record>

Then, I am doing the following actions in the Odoo web interface:

1.Creating new records of document.foo​​

2.Creating a new record of document.invoice

*Choosing Foo value in the doc_base_name (Base Document Type) field

*Trying to choose a value in the doc_base_id (Base Document) field, but there are no values. name_search​ method doesn't return values

How to solve this problem with doc_base_id (Many2oneReference) field?

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Ihor
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Thank you for your answers! It turned out the reason was the old version of my 18.0 branch from Github. The problem disappeared after pulling current version.

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Christoph Farnleitner
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Your example source works perfectly fine in terms of having the Many2oneReference field be a (M2o-)selection of Foo or Bar:


The name_search in fact would in your case return always all values - because there just isn't any definition of what an entered name should be searched against (since there's no name field).

If you would, for example, set a _rec_name on the Foo and Bar models (or define an name, or a computed display_name), i.e.

class DocumentFoo(models.Model):
    _name = 'document.foo'
    _description = 'Foo'
    _rec_name = 'number'

    date = fields.Datetime(string='Date', )
    number = fields.Char(string='Number', )

 

also your name_search would actually return a 'filtered' result.

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Hi,

You need to give document.foo and document.bar models a way to represent themselves.


If you want to use the existing number field as the record name:


class FooDocument(models.Model):

    _name = 'document.foo'

    _description = 'Foo'

    _rec_name = 'number' # <--- Add this


    date = fields.Datetime(string='Date')

    number = fields.Char(string='Number')



class BarDocument(models.Model):

    _name = 'document.bar'

    _description = 'Bar'

    _rec_name = 'number' # <--- Add this


    date = fields.Datetime(string='Date')

    number = fields.Char(string='Number')



This way, when you open the dropdown for doc_base_id, Odoo will display the number values of Foo/Bar records.


Hope it helps.

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