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[Odootips @Odootips]

#odoo use function name_create to create a new record with only one value the display name of the new record.

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#odoo use function search_count to get the number of records in the current model.

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Use _auto class attribute to ask #odoo to create a database table, If set False, then override init() to create the database table.

[Odoo @Odoo]

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[Odoo @Odoo]

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[Fabien Pinckaers @fpodoo]

List of features of #Odoo #CRM. https://t.co/ZgLfYcJlb1 (for our future website)

[Odootips @Odootips]

#odoo list of reserved field names:1:name 2:active 3:sequence 4:state 5:parent_id 6:parent_left 7:parent_right

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#odoo list of automatic fields:1:id 2:_log_access 3: create_date 4:create_uid 5:write_date 6:write_uid.

[Odootips @Odootips]

@bealdav It's x2many_counter used for m2m and o2m this widget can be used.<field name="field_name" widget="x2many_counter" string="XYZ"/>

[Odootips @Odootips]

In #odoo 8 you can use these m2m form widgets as: many2many_tags, many2many_checkboxes,many2many_kanban, many2many_counter, many2many_binary

[Odootips @Odootips]

In #odoo 8 use decorator api.constrains(*args) to define a python contraint.
each arg will be the field name used in check .

[Odootips @Odootips]

#odoo 8 If your compute method uses the values of other fields, you need to specify those fields using @api.depends() decorator.

[Odootips @Odootips]

#odoo 8 multiple fields can be computed at the same time by the same method. Just you need to set all of them in the method. #continued

[Odootips @Odootips]

#odoo 8 by default compute fields are not stored in the database. To store them use store=True attribute in the field definition.#continued

[Odootips @Odootips]

In #odoo 8 To make a field computable use compute attribute in field definition. eg: xy = fields.Char(compute='_get_value'). #continued

[Odootips @Odootips]

In #odoo 8 if you want to ignore the trigger of onchange from a field then add on_change="0" in a view. Eg:<field name="xy" on_change="0"/>

[Odootips @Odootips]

In #odoo 8 use decorator api.onchange(list of fields) to update the values of different fields in user interface.

[Odootips @Odootips]

In @Odoo 8 if you want to be sure that the record set contains only one record use ensure_one() on record set. eg: records.ensure_one()

[Odootips @Odootips]

In @Odoo 8 to find a record based on external id just use ref() on Environment. eg: env.ref('Your External id ')

[Odootips @Odootips]

@Odoo 8 use with_context() to replace keyword args in the current context or with_env() to replace the existing environment