Search many2one field by other than name (name_search)

In this article you will learn how to search many2one field by other than "name" field. We are going to achieve this by using odoo name_search built in method.

How to use name search function in Odoo

Problem Statement

We know that in Odoo search is available by default on "name" field. For example here is many2one field named "product". And we are unable to search on those field because this field is the combination of two field product name and product description.

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Solution

We can enable search on many2one fields by other than "name" field. We can achieve this by overriding "name_search" method of Odoo.

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name_search_function_in_odoo.py

Code Description

Here we override "name_search" built-in function of Odoo. Below are the descriptions of name search and its parameter.

def name_search(self, name, args=None, operator='ilike', limit=100)

Parameter	Type	Description
name	str	The name pattern to match
args	list	(optional) Search domain to specifying further restrictions
operator	str	domain operator for matching name, such as 'like', ‘ilike’, ‘=’, etc
limit	int	(optional) Max number of records to return
name_get_uid	int	To restrict or specify the user