Customizing how records are searched

The Defining the model representation and order recipe in Chapter 3, Creating Odoo Add-On Modules, introduced the name_get() method, which is used to compute a representation of the record in various places, including in the widget that's used to display Many2one relations in the web client.

This recipe will show you how to search for a book in the Many2one widget by title, author, or ISBN by redefining name_search.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use the following model definition:

class LibraryBook(models.Model): 
    _name = 'library.book' 
    name = fields.Char('Title') 
    isbn = fields.Char('ISBN') 
    author_ids = fields.Many2many('res.partner', 'Authors') 
    def name_get(self): 
        result = [] 
    ...