Odoo Development Cookbook

Defining filters on record lists: Domain

We've already seen the first example of a domain in the first action, which was [('customer', '=', True)]. It is a very common use case when you need to display a subset of all available records from an action, or to allow only a subset of possible records to be the target of a many2one relation. The way to describe these filters in Odoo is called a domain. This recipe illustrates how to use such a domain to display a selection of partners.

How to do it...

To display a subset of partners from your action, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Add an action for non-French speaking customers:

   <record id="action_my_customers" model="ir.actions.act_window"> <field name="name"> All customers who don't speak French ...