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Hello everyone.

Recently, I found that I would like to have country name set as default so user will not have to pick it from list (because most of our customers are local - UK).

So to do it I modified class in res_country.py ...

class Country(osv.osv):

_name = 'res.country'

_description = 'Country'

def _get_country_name(self):

res = self.env['res.country'].search([('name','=','United Kingdom')])

print res

return res

_columns = {

'name': fields.char('Country Name',

help='The full name of the country.', required=True, translate=True),

'code': fields.char('Country Code', size=2,

help='The ISO country code in two chars.\n'

'You can use this field for quick search.'),

'address_format': fields.text('Address Format', help="""You can state here the usual format to use for the \

addresses belonging to this country.\n\nYou can use the python-style string patern with all the field of the address \

(for example, use '%(street)s' to display the field 'street') plus

\n%(state_name)s: the name of the state

\n%(state_code)s: the code of the state

\n%(country_name)s: the name of the country

\n%(country_code)s: the code of the country"""),

'currency_id': fields.many2one('res.currency', 'Currency'),

'image': fields.binary("Image"),

'country_group_ids': fields.many2many('res.country.group', 'res_country_res_country_group_rel', 'res_country_id', 'res_country_group_id', string='Country Groups'),

}

_sql_constraints = [

('name_uniq', 'unique (name)',

'The name of the country must be unique !'),

('code_uniq', 'unique (code)',

'The code of the country must be unique !')

]

_defaults = {

'address_format': "%(street)s\n%(street2)s\n%(city)s %(state_code)s %(zip)s\n%(country_name)s",

'name': _get_country_name,

}

I was hoping that it is so easy to achieve but unfortunately .... is not.

How can I achieve it ?

Would anyone tell me what is the best method ?

Don't know why I tried to achieve it in such complicated way .... ;)


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The easiest way is via the UI:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14375152/how-to-set-default-value-for-openerp-v7-at-form-interface

(For v7 but it hasn't changed).

Since this is just a record, you can export it like any other to move it from one database to another. 

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I'm glad you got it working.

Just in case you or anyone reading this wants to do it via the UI, the trick is to populate the field BEFORE opening the Set Defaults popup:


This method makes a record in Settings --> Technical --> Actions --> User Defined Defaults:


By removing the User, it becomes the default for ALL USERS (or you can just select that on the popup in the first place).

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Awesome, Thank you Ray. Are you sure this or similar method also works in v8.0 ?

Yes.  6.1, 7, 8 and 9.

From: Dr Obx
Sent: ‎3/‎20/‎2016 2:39 PM
To: Ray Carnes
Subject: Re: Re: [SOLVED]: Default country name ... how to?

Awesome, Thank you Ray. Are you sure this or similar method also works in v8.0 ?

Regards

Robert A.Lien
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Awesome, it's so simple

in class res_partner(osv.Model, format_address):

just added in _defaults section:

  'country_id': 233,

works beautifully ;)

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