How to use name_create method in Odoo 18
- 1. How to use name_create method in Odoo 18 Enterprise
- 2. Enterprise Introduction In this slide, we’ll discuss on how to use name_create method in Odoo 18. The name_create method in Odoo is a powerful utility for creating records dynamically while ensuring they are identified by their display name. This method is particularly useful in scenarios where a user needs to quickly add a new record directly from a Many2one field dropdown or other related fields. It enables the creation of a record by simply providing a name, reducing the need for switching between views or modules.
- 3. Enterprise The name_create method is called when creating a record from many2one field directly by name. We have two options to create the record from here either by clicking on create or create and edit.
- 4. Enterprise When we click on the Create option, we can see the name_create method will be called directly. For that we have overridden the following methods in our custom module and added the print statements. def create(self, vals): print("Main create method") res = super().create(vals) print(res, "res in create method") return res @api.model def name_create(self, name): print("Name create method") res = super().name_create(name) print(res, "res in name_create method") return res
- 5. Enterprise Upon clicking on the create option from Many2one field, first we can see name_create method will be called first and then the create method. Also we can see name_create method only returns the tuple. But If we click on the Create and edit option, we can see only create method is called and it will return recordset. Another thing is if we don't want to call the super method in the name_create method and we want to return in our way, we can use the following method for name_create(). @api.model def name_create(self, name): res = self.create({'name': name}) return res.id, res.display_name
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