How to Set Default Warehouse for Deliveries in Odoo Do you have multiple warehouses linked to a single company in Odoo, but only one is used for product deliveries? Place that warehouse first in the list of warehouses, and it will always be selected as... Functional Inventory Odoo 18 Dec 10, 2024
Default Values in Context and Potential Issues When passing a default value for a field via context , you need to consider that this value can be passed on to models initially not planned for. For example, when passing the product_qty as a defa... Odoo 17 Technical Dec 5, 2024
Default value issues caused by "onchange" method A default value for a field may not be set on the creation of a new record, even provided in the field definition In many cases, the reason for that is an onchange method that is resetting the value... Technical Dec 5, 2024
Optimize "create" overrides by using the decorator "model_create_multi" In some cases, there is a need to override the create method in Odoo and add additional logic to it. When overriding this method, the custom logic is triggered on each iteration of creating a new ob... Technical Mar 26, 2024 Tips
How to change the text color for a column in a list view In Odoo it is possible to change the color or text style of a column in a list view using the “decoration” attributes. The syntax for them is decoration-<style> where the style can be one of the fol... Technical Mar 11, 2024 Tips
How to make images partially overlap in Odoo website Starting from Odoo 16 it is possible to make an image partially overlap over another image in the website. In order for that to be possible it is needed the layout for the block to be set to “Grid”. T... Functional Feb 26, 2024 Tips
How to format dates in email templates When using a date field in the email templates it is important to use it with formatting function for the value to be represented in the format set in the language settings. The function for formattin... Functional Technical Feb 19, 2024 Tips
How to customize field definitions by group in Odoo view In everyday business cases, there are a lot of situations where a particular field needs to have different attributes or attribute values based on different access groups. This type of case is possibl... Technical Feb 12, 2024 Tips
How to schedule a blog post for publishing in Odoo Having a “Schedule to Publish” functionality is essential for every blog platform. However, in Odoo this option is less prominent. While there is a clear “Published” toggle, the “Schedule to Publish” ... Functional Jan 29, 2024 Tips
How to hide a column in a list view A column in a list view can be hidden by using the attributes column_invisible or optional . The column_invisible attribute accepts a boolean value as True/False or 1/0 . Since this attribute ... Technical Jan 22, 2024 Tips
How to change the priority of an existing view In the post The importance of correctly setting priority on inherited views we have already discussed the importance of the priority field in the inherited views and why it needs to have the right v... Technical Dec 4, 2023 Tips
How to handle multiline content with Char, Text, and HTML Fields In case the content in a Char field needs to be split into multiple lines and represented like that in the view the new line character \n or HTML line break <br> tag are not supported in this ty... Technical Nov 20, 2023