Call function from the "More" dropdown list

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Call function from the "More" dropdown list

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function click drop_down button object dropdown more ir.values

Eric

Hello. I was wondering how can you run a function when you click on an option from the "More" menu dropdown in a Tree view.

For example: When you are looking at all the records in a Tree view, then you click the check box for each record, then the "More" button appears at the top and if you select "Delete" then it calls the unlink method for that model and deletes the selected records.

I figured out how to add another item in the "More" dropdown, but I don't know how to run a function when the item is clicked. All it does right now is open another form view, but I would like it to process some information before displaying it in another form. Here is an example of what I have

<record id="hr_employee_normal_action_tree2" model="ir.actions.act_window">
<field name="name">Erics More Item</field>
<field name="type">ir.actions.act_window</field>
<field name="res_model">hr.employee</field>
<field name="view_type">form</field>
<field name="view_mode">tree,form</field>
</record>

<record model="ir.values" id="test_more_item">
<field name="name">Test Item</field>
<field name="model" eval="'sale.order'" />
<field name="key" >action</field>
<field name="key2">client_action_multi</field>
<field name="value" eval="'ir.actions.act_window,%d'%hr_employee_normal_action_tree2" />
<field name="object" eval="True" />
</record>

So does anyone know how to run a function when the item from the "More" dropdown is selected? I guess what I kind of need is the functionality which is similar to a button that is an object type. So when a button is clicked then it runs a function on that model.

Maniganda

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Hi Eric you can achieve this by addind few lines of code in your server action

<field name="name">Erics More Item</field>

            <field name="model_id" ref="model_sale_licenses"/>
            <field name="state">code</field>
            <field name="code">action = self.renew_license(cr, uid, context.get('active_ids', []), context=context)</field>
        </record>

        <record id="test_more_item" model="ir.values">
            <field eval="'client_action_multi'" name="key2"/>
            <field eval="'sale.licenses'" name="model"/>
            <field name="name">Test Item</field>
            <field eval="'ir.actions.server,%d'%sale_license_more_item_action" name="value"/>
        </record>

Eric

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Hello Maniganda. Thank you for your help. I did what you said, but it still isn't working for me. Let me show you what I have again and can you let me know if you see anything wrong with it. Thank you again Erics More Item ir.actions.act_window sale.licenses form form self.renew_license(cr, uid, context.get('active_ids', []), context=context) Test Item action client_action_multi

Eric

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the last comment got cut off. I'll post my code as another answer so that you can see

abdallah ghrir

i want to call function :'action_button_confirm' in dropdown list menu "More" ???? this is my code and it dosent work : Transformer en BL ir.actions.act_window sale.order form form self.action_button_confirm(cr, uid, context.get('active_ids', []), context=context) Test Item action client_action_multi

dirtyHandsPHP

Thanks @Maniganda: You saved my day!!! :)

Artem

working code

<record id="dditem1_action" model="ir.actions.server">
        <field name="name">Text to display as menu item</field>
        <field name="model_id" ref="model_your_model"/>
        <field name="state">code</field>
        <field name="condition">True</field>
        <field name="code">if object: self.browse(cr,uid,context.get('active_ids', [])).your_function()</field>
</record>
<record id="dditem1" model="ir.values">
        <field name="name">name</field>
        <field name="model">your.model</field>
        <field name="key" >action</field>
        <field name="key2">client_action_multi</field>
        <field name="value" eval="'ir.actions.server,%d'%dditem1_action"/>
</record>

@api.multi
def your_function(self):
     for item in self:
         # do something with selected records

Eric

Author

My new code:

<record id="sale_license_more_item_action" model="ir.actions.act_window">
<field name="name">Erics More Item</field>
<field name="type">ir.actions.act_window</field>
<field name="res_model">sale.licenses</field>
<field name="view_type">form</field>
<field name="view_mode">form</field>
<field name="code">self.renew_license(cr, uid, context.get('active_ids', []), context=context)</field>
</record>

<record model="ir.values" id="test_more_item">
<field name="name">Test Item</field>
<field name="model" eval="'sale.licenses'" />
<field name="key" >action</field>
<field name="key2">client_action_multi</field>
<field name="value" eval="'ir.actions.act_window,%d'%sale_license_more_item_action" />
<field name="object" eval="True" />
</record>

I dont get any errors, but it still just goes to the form without running the code that was added. Thank you again

Maniganda

Eric i have updated the answer you can check this

Eric

Author

Thank you Maniganda for your help. Your solution works for me. Can you help me with one more thing? The function that is called is supposed to create a new sales order, which it does, but I would also like it to open the new sales order form when its finished. The end of my function returns a dictionary like this return { 'name': 'Sales Order', 'view_type': 'form', 'view_mode': 'form', 'view_id': self.pool.get('ir.ui.view').search(cr, uid, [('name','=','sale.order.form')])[0], 'res_model': 'sale.order', 'res_id': new_order_id, 'type': 'ir.actions.act_window', } This seems to work on other function calls, but for some reason it isn't working for this one.

Maniganda

Eric i have updated the answer

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Hello Maniganda. I appreciate your help. I'm still having trouble with opening the new sale order in the form view once my function is done executing. Do you have any other ideas?

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Maniganda <k-maniganda-gmail-com@mail.odoo.com> wrote:

Eric i have updated the answer
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belazarFati

can you please tell me what is eval="'ir.actions.act_window,%d'%hr_employee_normal_action_tree2" stand for

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