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blake_won
blake_won

Reputation: 29

Having trouble with form inheritance in Odoo

I've been raking my head around this for the better part of the day and i just can't seem to get it right.

I'm trying to add a new field to the res_users form but whatever I do it just won't show. No errors, everything seems normal but the field just isn't showing in the form.

manifest.py:

{
    'name': "Extended User",
    'version': '1.0',
    'depends': ['base'],
    'author': "blake_won",
    'category': 'custom',
    'description': """
    Description text
    """,
    # data files always loaded at installation
    'data': [
        'views/extended_views.xml',
    ],
}

views file:

<odoo>
    <record id="res_users_form_view" model="ir.ui.view">
        <field name="name">res.users.form.inherit</field>
        <field name="model">res.users</field>
        <field name="inherit_id" ref="base.view_users_form"/>
        <field name="arch" type="xml">
            <xpath expr="//field[@name='partner_id']" position="after">
                <group>
                <field name="extended_variable"></field>
                </group>
            </xpath>
        </field>
    </record>
</odoo>

extendeduser.py:

from odoo import models, fields

class extendedUser(models.Model):
    _inherit = 'res.users' 
    extended_variable = fields.Char(string="EXTENDED VARIABLE",default="NA")

console log:

2021-09-08 15:35:14,386 55731 INFO mydb odoo.modules.loading: Loading module extended_user (2/8) 
2021-09-08 15:35:14,411 55731 INFO mydb odoo.modules.registry: module extended_user: creating or updating database tables 
2021-09-08 15:35:14,484 55731 INFO mydb odoo.modules.loading: loading extended_user/views/extended_views.xml```


Please help me, i'm at my wit's end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 314

Answers (1)

Kenly
Kenly

Reputation: 26698

As you can read in the documentation:

An xpath element with an expr attribute. expr is an XPath expression2 applied to the current arch, the first node it finds is the match

Odoo will find the first partner_id field, which is before the image field, and the div containing that field will be invisible if the current user and its related partner are active.

If you check the page source code, you will find after a hyperlink named partner_id something similar to:

<table class="o_group o_inner_group">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td class="o_td_label">
        <label class="o_form_label" for="o_field_input_710" data-original-title="" title="">EXTENDED VARIABLE</label>
      </td>
      <td style="width: 100%;">
        <span class="o_field_char o_field_widget" name="extended_variable">NA</span>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

Which is the rendered group

You can try to match the second partner_id field, which is inside a group inside a div that has a class named oe_title.

<xpath expr="//div[hasclass('oe_title')]/group/field[@name='partner_id']" position="after">
    <field name="extended_variable"/>
</xpath>

Upvotes: 1

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