Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

Creating a computed field

Technically, computed fields are the function fields that compute the values based on the value of other fields. You will be able to write the Python code to compute the value of the field at the time of creating a computed field using Odoo Studio.

Make sure you are in debug mode before you enter studio mode, it will be easy for us to get the technical name of any field from the tooltips available on the field.

Let's take a simple example to add a balance field, that computes the difference of Total Receivable and Total Payable for customer.

Go to the customer's form view, enter into studio mode, drag and drop the Monitory field below the Tags fields, and change the label of the field to Balance to Receive:

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