Author: Surid

Odoo field has an attribute called ‘attrs’. This adds custom attribute to the Odoo form/tree views. You may use different kind of attributes with attrs like ‘required’, ‘readonly’ or ‘invisible’. For basic, to hide a field regardless of it be an individual entity or parent relation, we use the following:

<field name='field_name' invisible='1'/>

This is useful when we are triggering a computed field that we don’t want to show on a tree/form view. But what if we want to dynamically decide whether to invisible the field or not? For such cases, we usually use invisible with the ‘attrs’ attribute on fields, for example:

<field name='product_id' attrs="{ 'invisible': [('is_set', '=', True)]}"/>

You might set the field 'is_set' itself as invisible and a boolean computed field like the following:

is_set = fields.Boolean(compute="_set_is_set")

def _set_is_set(self):
if self.lot_id.life_date:
self.is_set = True
else:
self.is_set = False

Seems easy, right? But there is a catch, the above won’t hide the whole column if you are on a place like ‘purchase.order.line’ or ‘stock.move.line’. How can you work on such cases? It only works on individual entry, but not on a relational column. There is an attribute called ‘column_invisible’ same like ‘invisible’ we have used above. But the difference is, you need to set this based on parent value, thus hides a relational column. Here is an example to hide a column called ‘show_expiry’ in a picking operation:

<field name="show_expiry" attrs="{ 'column_invisible' : [('parent.picking_type_code', 'in', ['incoming'])]}" />

Above code checks the ‘picking_type_code’ value from ‘stock.picking’ model, and hides the column if it’s an incoming shipment and shows when it’s an outgoing shipment. That means, the above, would show the column (show_expiry) if it’s a Delivery to customer location or you already have the product, but won’t show if you are doing a GRN, means you don’t have the stock yet, just arriving.

Pretty simple, isn’t it? Good luck.

There are two ways you can have a model data selection in Odoo, one is to use Selection field and the Other is Many2one relational field. To dynamically create a Selection field, all you need to do is to pass the list of (value, string) tuple as the first parameter or use a reference of a function to get a return list of same. Creating dynamic selection field is quite simple, with one drawback! It won’t work on api onchange. As the values on the selection fields are already loaded, api onchange can not reverse and reload the selection fields like it can do on ‘relational objects’. The only way left is to use a Many2one relational field.

Now Many2one relational field now make it a bit complicated as, you can’t generate the list in a straightforward way like you can do in selection field. Most likely, you would like to pass a domain, that matches some attribute of ‘self’, and some from another relation. Here is how you can achieve this!

I will create a simple model with two fields, one is Char and the other is Many2one:

_name = 'my.product.manager'

sku = fields.Char(string='SKU', required=True)
basket = fields.Many2one('basket.location', string='Product Basket Location', required=True)

Now, for example, you would like to select these SKUs during the creation of purchase order, and would like the field to come up when a change is made on the purchase order line.

First, we create a new Many2one relation field on ‘purchase.order.line’ model in relation to ‘my.product.manager’

_inherit = 'purchase.order.line'
basket_location_id = fields.Many2one( 'my.product.manager', 'Basket Location')

Cool, now you don’t want to share all the baskets in the purchase order form for a product, instead you want to show only those baskets that are allocated for that specific SKU. Here is how, you can pass a dynamic domain to the basket_location_id and filter it

@api.onchange('product_id')
def onchange_basket(self):
res = {
'domain' : {
'basket_dest_id' : [('sku', '=', self.product_id.default_code)],
}
}
return res

Neat! Pretty straight forward, isn’t it? Odoo 12 doesn’t give you the opportunity to choose a predefined location for a product. If you combine change.qty with the above, you can soon have a great module to use to let Odoo choose a product from default location. Cool Idea?

Happy coding!