Odoo Development Cookbook

Customizing how records are searched

The Defining the Model representation and order recipe in Chapter 3, Creating Odoo Modules introduced the name_get() method, which is used to compute a representation of the record in various places, including in the widget used to display Many2one relations in the web client.

This recipe shows how to allow searching for a book in the Many2one widget by title, author, or ISBN by redefining name_search.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the following model definition:

class LibraryBook(models.Model): _name = 'library.book' name = fields.Char('Title') isbn = fields.Char('ISBN') author_ids = fields.Many2many('res.partner', 'Authors') @api.model def name_get(self): result = [] for book in self: authors ...