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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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Using buttons

Buttons allow the user to trigger actions, such as opening another view or running business logic in a server function. They were introduced previously in this chapter, when we discussed the form header, but they can also be added anywhere in form and list views.

Buttons support the following attributes:

  • string is the button text label, or the HTML alt text when an icon is used.
  • type is the type of action to perform. Possible values include object, to call a Python method, or action, to run a window action.
  • name identifies the specific action to perform, according to the chosen type: either a model method name or the database ID of a window action to run. The %(<xmlid>)d formula can be used to translate an XML ID into the necessary database ID when the view is being loaded.
  • args is used when type="object" is used to pass additional parameters to the method call.
  • context sets the values on the context. This could be used in the...
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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