I wrote a module 'web_menu_action_if' to accomplish this task in Odoo 9.0.
__openerp__.py
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{
'name': 'Web Menu Action If',
'category': 'Hidden',
'author': '©INTER-DIMENSIONAL-SPACE-PORT',
'website': 'http://inter-dimensional-space-port.net',
'description': """
So you can have items on the Action menu for a model only for selected views.
Makes any action with xml_id starting with 'action_if_xyz_then_' or 'action_if_not_xyz_then_'
invisible unless the context has or does not have 'action_if_xyz_then': 1.
For example, define an action with id="module.action_if_my_view_then_do_something"
and then on your ir.actions.act_window which loads your view, include context="{'action_if_my_view': 1}".
If you want an action to not appear on your view, use id="module.action_if_not_my_view_then_something_else".
Using this mechanism, I was able to make a Payment Transfer view that has certain actions
and have certain other actions only show up on the default Sales Payments and Purchase Payments views.
<record id="action_account_payment_transfers" model="ir.actions.act_window">
<field name="name">Payment Transfers</field>
<field name="res_model">account.payment</field>
<field name="view_type">form</field>
<field name="view_mode">tree,form,graph</field>
<field name="context">{
'default_payment_type': 'transfer',
'actions_if_payment_transfer': 1,
}</field>
<field name="domain">[('payment_type', '=', 'transfer')]</field>
<field name="view_id" ref="view_account_payment_transfer_tree"/>
</record>
<record id="actions_if_payment_transfer_then_unreconcile_and_cancel" model="ir.actions.server">
...
</record>
<record id="actions_if_not_payment_transfer_then_create_journal_entry_in_lieu_of_invoice" model="ir.actions.server">
...
</record>
""",
'version': '1.0',
'depends': ['web'],
'data': [
'views/assets.xml',
],
}
views/assets.xml
<openerp>
<data>
<template id="web_menu_action_if_assets_js" name="Web Menu Action If JS Assets" inherit_id="web.assets_backend">
<xpath expr="script[last()]" position="after">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/web_menu_action_if/static/src/js/web_menu_action_if.js"></script>
</xpath>
</template>
</data>
</openerp>
static/src/js/web_menu_action_if.js
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// gratitude addons/web/static/src/js/widgets/sidebar.js
// gratitude https://www.odoo.com/forum/help-1/question/how-to-get-context-value-from-js-to-python-function-in-odoo-91728
// gratitude https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9882284/looping-through-array-and-removing-items-without-breaking-for-loop
// gratitude https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_includes.asp
// gratitude https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47049062/non-greedy-regular-expression-for-javascript
// gratitude https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_substr.asp
// gratitude https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp/exec
odoo.define('web.action_if', function (require) {
'use strict';
var Sidebar = require('web.Sidebar');
var re_actions_if = new RegExp('^[^.]+\.(actions_if_.*?)_then_.+$');
true || console.log('starting web_menu_action_if.js');
Sidebar.include({
add_toolbar: function(toolbar) {
var self = this;
var context = self.getParent().dataset.get_context().eval();
true || console.log('context: ' + JSON.stringify(context));
_.each(['print','action','relate'], function(type) {
var items = toolbar[type];
if (items) {
// Make any action with xml_id starting with 'action_if_xyz_then_' or 'action_if_not_xyz_then_'
// invisible unless the context has or does not have 'action_if_xyz_then': 1.
for (var i = items.length-1; i >= 0 ; i--) {
var matches = re_actions_if.exec(items[i].xml_id);
var actions_if = matches ? matches[1] : '';
var flip = (actions_if.indexOf('actions_if_not') == 0);
if (flip) {
actions_if = 'actions_if' + actions_if.substr(14);
}
var visible = (!actions_if
|| (!flip && context[actions_if]) || (flip && !context[actions_if]));
true || console.log(
'item xml_id: ' + items[i].xml_id
+ ', actions_if: ' + actions_if + ', flip: ' + flip
+ ', context[actions_if]: ' + context[actions_if] + ', visible: ' + visible);
if (!visible) {
true || console.log('action invisible: ' + items[i].xml_id);
items.splice(i, 1);
}
}
// Repeat code from core web module to install actions in the sidebar.
for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
items[i] = {
label: items[i]['name'],
action: items[i],
classname: 'oe_sidebar_' + type
};
}
self.add_items(type=='print' ? 'print' : 'other', items);
}
});
},
});
}); // end odoo.define('', function() {
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