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Odoo Development Cookbook

by Holger Brunn, Alexandre Fayolle, Daniel Reis
April 2016
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
400 pages
9h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adding buttons to forms

We added a button in the previous form, but there are quite different types of buttons to use. This recipe will add another button; also put the following code in to the previous recipe's header element.

How to do it...

Add a button referring to an action:

<button type="action" name="%(base.action_partner_category_form)d" string="Open partner categories" />

How it works...

The button's type attribute determines the semantics of the other fields, so we'll first look into the possible values:

  • action: This makes the button call an action as defined in the ir.actions.* namespace. The name attribute needs to contain the action's database id, which you can conveniently look up with a python format string containing the XML ID of the ...
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