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Learn Odoo
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Learn Odoo

by Greg Moss
October 2019
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
12h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Specifying additional fields

One of the greatest features of Odoo's developer tools is that you can hover over any field in a form and see important information about that field. For our example, we are going to hover over the Source Document field to learn about how this field is represented within Odoo's database as shown below:

As you can see, the Field name for the Source Document in the sales order is origin. We can also verify that this field belongs to the sale.order object and it is of the char type.

We will use this information to modify the search view so that we can add the ability to search for a source document in the list view ...

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ISBN: 9781789536898