Hi, thanks for pointing this out to me but the idea here is to have a text field that can be fully edited inline, and that only shows so many characters when in browse mode. If the behavior doesn't exist, I'll post a feedback on http://feedback.openerp.com. These features are lacking, along with placeholders, rich text, etc.

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ok, sounds like the answer I was looking for. Still have to detect the field/view state, any hint ? is it a variable available in xml (a bit like active_id, parent, etc) ?

I can't find in the view the boolean context variable set_editable mentioned here : http://doc.openerp.com/trunk/developers/web/list_view/#editability-status

I believe you do not understood what I would say by editable/browse. Editable is when you push a button create or edit, browse is a view in state read (I wanted just use terms you used yourself). By regarding your other new questions, attribute set_editable is to have a tree with lines editable without wizard form opened to modify value of fields, this is not the same thing. I do not if it is possible to have the status edit/read mode of a view. bye

Hi GEM, thanks for coming back to me. I understand both contexts are different. The link above discusses a javascript context accessed from the client side which could as well be a completely different context from the server side context. I created a new question to dig and clarify this topic.