Howcan I change the visible name of a many2many field?

Question

I am using Odoo8.

I have two models: x_items and project.task.work.

I have a field called name and a custom field called x_wo_ref in the project.task.work.

I have a many2many field x_item_wo in the model x_items which is related with the model project.task.work.

Currently when I fill the field x_item_wo, the field name from project.task.work is showed.

How can I customise it in order to use the field x_wo_ref instead of the default field name for this many2many field?

Thank you

Answer 1

You need to define the _rec_name attribute of the model. _rec_name takes as default the field name and if this does not exist it does not take anything unless you specify it. For instance if you need to see the field phone you must write:

_rec_name = 'phone'

In case you want a _rec_name depending on anything you need to change the function name_get(). You can see examples in other models.