Odoo 9: Issue in View Inheritence [xpath]

Question

Using Odoo 9 Community Version.
In the inherited view am trying to locate a page using its string attribute however I ended up facing the below error.
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*"view inheritance may not use attribute 'string' as a selector"*
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Upon close search I have realized, in Odoo 9, xpath expression doesn't seem to search based on string, then what is the alternative way to achieve the same.

Thanks

Yenthe Van Ginneken (Mainframe Monkey) · Accepted Answer

Hi Deep,

Searching on the string attribute has been deprecated in Odoo 9, it was available in Odoo 8 though.
There are quite some alternatives to this. The first is to xpath by the field name:

<xpath expr="//field[@name='fieldName']" position="replace">

The second option is to do this by index, which is slightly worse since it has a bigger chance that the index of the item will change on some point (if you install / de-install modules):

<xpath expr="//group[1]" position="replace">

The above will get the second group that is in the current view (index starts counting from 0)

Yenthe

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