October 26, 2014, odoo

Form widgets for many2many fields in Odoo

Index

  1. many2many widget (default)
  2. many2many_tags widget
  3. many2many_checkboxes widget
  4. many2many_kanban widget
  5. x2many_counter widget
  6. many2many_binary widget

many2many widget (default)

The many2many widget uses the default list view for the related model, to display a list of related objects. many2many widget

Options

  • no_create - remove the “Create” button.

Example

<field name="field_name" options="{'no_create': True}"/>

many2many_tags widget

Facebook-like multi item selection. many2many_tags widget

Options

  • no_quick_create - remove the Create and edit... option.
  • no_create_edit - remove the Create "foo" option. many2many_tags widget
  • no_create - no_quick_create and no_create_edit combined.

Example

<field name="field_name"
    widget="many2many_tags"
    options="{'no_create_edit': True}"/>

many2many_checkboxes widget

According to a comment in Odoo’s source code:

This type of field display a list of checkboxes. It works only with m2ms. This field will display one checkbox for each record existing in the model targeted by the relation, according to the given domain if one is specified. Checked records will be added to the relation.

There’s no way to use this widget to create new items.

many2many_tags widget

Example

<field name="field_name" widget="many2many_checkboxes"/>

many2many_kanban widget

The many2many_kanban widget uses a Kanban View to display a list of related objects.

This widget can have widely different look and feel, depending on the Kanban View it uses. Here’s a screenshot from the project module:

many2many_kanban widget

Example

<field name="field_name" widget="many2many_kanban">
    <kanban>
        <field name="name"/>
        <templates>
            <t t-name="kanban-box">
                <field name="name"/>
            </t>
        </templates>
    </kanban>
</field>

x2many_counter widget

A simple, read only widget displaying a link with an information about the number of related items. The link’s target view can be configured with the views option.

Also useful with one2many fields.

x2many_counter widget

Options

  • views - According to a comment in Odoo’s source code:

    The views to display in the act_window action. Must be a list of tuple whose first element is the id of the view to display (or False to take the default one) and the second element is the type of the view. Defaults to [[false, "tree"], [false, "form"]].

Example

<field name="field_name" widget="x2many_counter" string="things"/>

many2many_binary widget

According to a comment in Odoo’s source code:

Widget for (many2many field) to upload one or more file in same time and display in list. The user can delete his files.

This widget works exclusively on many2many fields associated with the ir.attachment model.

many2many_binary kanban

Example

<field name="field_name" widget="many2many_binary" string="Attach a file"/>

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