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Tutorial: Creating Custom Smart Buttons

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Odoo Apps Dependencies • Contacts (contacts)
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Technical Name erpl_smartbuttons_tutorial
LicenseOPL-1
Websitehttps://erplabz.com
Versions 18.0 19.0

Tutorial: Creating Smart Buttons

Learn how to create custom smart buttons in Odoo

Smart Button Stat Info Tutorial

Overview

This tutorial module teaches you how to create smart buttons in Odoo. Smart buttons are the rectangular stat buttons that appear in the top-right of form views, showing counts and opening related records.

What You'll Learn

  • Creating computed fields for button counts
  • Performance optimization using search_count() and read_group()
  • Button action methods returning window actions
  • XML button definition with statinfo widget
  • Domain filtering for related records

Contains

  • New smart button on Countries showing contact count
  • Clickable button that opens filtered contacts
  • Action to open contacts for specific country
  • Documented Python and XML code

Key Code Example

XML Button Definition

<button name="action_view_contacts"
  type="object" class="oe_stat_button" icon="fa-users">
  <field name="contact_count" widget="statinfo"/>
</button>

Python Action Method

def action_view_contacts(self):
  return {
    'type': 'ir.actions.act_window',
    'res_model': 'res.partner',
    'domain': [('country_id', '=', self.id)],
  }

Technical Information

Tutorial: Creating Smart Buttons

Learn how to create custom smart buttons in Odoo

Smart Button Stat Info Tutorial

Overview

This tutorial module teaches you how to create smart buttons in Odoo. Smart buttons are the rectangular stat buttons that appear in the top-right of form views, showing counts and opening related records.

What You'll Learn

  • Creating computed fields for button counts
  • Performance optimization using search_count() and read_group()
  • Button action methods returning window actions
  • XML button definition with statinfo widget
  • Domain filtering for related records

Contains

  • New smart button on Countries showing contact count
  • Clickable button that opens filtered contacts
  • Action to open contacts for specific country
  • Documented Python and XML code

Key Code Example

XML Button Definition

<button name="action_view_contacts"
  type="object" class="oe_stat_button" icon="fa-users">
  <field name="contact_count" widget="statinfo"/>
</button>

Python Action Method

def action_view_contacts(self):
  return {
    'type': 'ir.actions.act_window',
    'res_model': 'res.partner',
    'domain': [('country_id', '=', self.id)],
  }

Technical Information

Version: 19.0.1.0.0

Dependencies: base, contacts

License: OPL-1

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