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Hello,
I'm triying to set a default record name as a combination of 2 fields:
I have a table with 3 columns (just for the example):
And I would want to have the name calculated with the following:
def _get_name(...):
element = self.browse(cr, uid, ids, context=context)
return '%s -> %s' % (element.start_date, element.end_date)_columns = {
'name': fields.function(_get_name, type='char'...)
...
}
How can I get that?
Thank you in advance
This is how I finally got my combined name:
def _get_name(self, cr, uid, ids, name, arg, context=None):
reads = self.read(cr, uid, ids, ['start_date','end_date'], context=context)
res = []
for record in reads:
name = '%s -> %s' % (record['start_date'], record['end_date'])
res.append((record['id'], name))
return res
And for the field:
'name': fields.function(_get_name, type='char', store=True)
Hi Alejandro,
Here is the function I used recently to retrieve a combination of two fields as the name:
@api.multi
def name_get(self):
retvals = []
for record in self:
if self.env.context.get('prod_form', False):
catstring = "[" + record.name + "] " + record.description
retvals.append((record.id,catstring))
else:
retvals.append((record.id,record.name))
return retvals
In this case, it returns the combination of 'name' and 'description' only when the 'prod_form' context is true. It should steer you in the right direction, though, as it uses the new v8 API form. Notice that the function only needs 'self' as a parameter. All the other variables (cr, uid, ids, context, etc.) are wrapped up in the environment, which is part of 'self'.
In this post, Marvin helped me understand what (I hope) I explained above. My original question also contains a link to the API documentation, if you haven't found that already.
I think you also want to declare your field like this:
name = fields.Char(compute='yourFunction_name')
Thank you Jeff, your answer helps me to understand a little more how odoo works, I'm always building modules with a dictionary for _columns but I will try this on my next module.
That still works. You'll find that Odoo still has a mix of old and new API stuff. That tripped me up for a while, until Marvin pointed out (see linked post) that I needed the @api.multi decorator on my name_get function.
I was looking for something like this recently and suddenly found it but would anyone tell me, I need it for product so if possible to make some changes to make it work with product please?
I need combine 3/4 fields together so as a result the product name should contain brand, model, size, ...
Can anyone show me exactly how should it look like for product module ?
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The problem here is I wasn't iterating on the element (which should be elements). A res list should also be declared as empty and append the custom name to this list with the record id.