Odoo: Conditional invisible attribute on fields only works in one direction?

Question

I'm trying to make a field invisible on condition in an Odoo form view. When "Can be sold" is checked ==> "Product Manager" should be invisible:

I tried using the attribute "invisible" with a domain in the inherited view of the products form:

<record model="ir.ui.view" id="product_template_form_inherit">
    <field name="name">product.template.product.form</field>
    <field name="model">product.template</field>
    <field name="inherit_id" ref="product.product_template_only_form_view" />
    <field name="arch" type="xml">
        <field name="product_manager"  position="attributes">
                    <attribute name="invisible">[('sale_ok', '=', True)]</attribute>
        </field>    
</field>
</record>

When the field sale_ok is true, the product_manager field is actually hidden. But when field sale_ok becomes false again, the field product_manager stays hidden.

I also tried this instead:

<field name="product_manager" attrs="{'invisible': [('sale_ok', '=', True)]}"/>

This doesn't work either.

I've also tried other domains like:

[('sale_ok', '==', True)]
[('sale_ok', '!=', False)]
[('sale_ok', '=', 'True')]

Not really sure what's wrong here... How to make it (in)visible when (un)checked?

What I'm eventually after is the following thing: When a checkbox is checked, the form should change immediately without saving. Fields have to be added and removed. Is that possible?

Edit:

I can hide/unhide product manager now with ChesuCR's answer. However when I try the same thing with "loc_rack" (Storage Location==>Rack) it gives error:

Field(s) `arch` failed against a constraint: Invalid view definition

Error details:
Element '<field name="loc_rack">' cannot be located in parent view

This is the code I used:

<field name="loc_rack"  position="replace">
    <field name="loc_rack" attrs="{'invisible': [('sale_ok', '=', True)]}"/>
</field>

Why can't I do the same with this field?

ChesuCR · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-25T13:06:06.600

6

This works well to me

<record id="custom_product_template_form_view" model="ir.ui.view">
    <field name="name">custom.product.template.form</field>
    <field name="model">product.template</field>
    <field name="inherit_id" ref="product.product_template_form_view" />
    <field name="arch" type="xml">
        <field name="product_manager"  position="replace">
            <field name="product_manager" attrs="{'invisible': [('sale_ok', '=', True)]}"/>
        </field>
    </field>  
</record>

If you find any problems you can try the "federico" answer just to modify the attrs attribute. My solution may modify or remove other attributes if they already exist in the original form.

edited Oct 25 '19 at 13:06

answered Aug 28 '15 at 08:08

ChesuCR

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Works perfect! Fault was in the position="attribute". Should have been "replace" like you. – RobbeM Aug 28 '15 at 08:12
One more question. This works for product_manager, but when I try this with loc_rack, it doesn't work? I've edited my OP. – RobbeM Aug 28 '15 at 08:43
Make sure you are inheriting the correct view. What do you have in the `inherit_id` field? – ChesuCR Aug 28 '15 at 08:55
`loc_rack` is in the `stock.view_template_property_form` view – ChesuCR Aug 28 '15 at 08:57

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 14 '20 at 18:08

Using position="replace" could bring problems, the best option is to use position="attributes"

Imagine that another installed module (named module X) is inheriting the tag you are replacing. When you update your Odoo system, it will crash because the module X cannot find the tag you replaced.

This code works perfectly for me:

<field name="product_manager"  position="attributes">
    <attribute name="attrs">{'invisible': [('sale_ok', '=', True)]}</attribute>
</field>

Odoo: Conditional invisible attribute on fields only works in one direction?

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