Web Form Banner

Usage of message fields:

• Message (message): Text shown in the banner. Supports ${placeholders} filled from values returned by message_value_code. Ignored if message_value_code returns an html value.
• HTML (message_is_html): If enabled, the message string is rendered as HTML; otherwise it’s treated as plain text.
• Message Value Code (message_value_code): Safe Python expression evaluated per record. Return a dict such as {“visible”: True, “severity”: “warning”, “values”: {“name”: record.name}}. Use either message or html (from this code), not both. Several evaluation context variables are available.

Evaluation context variables available in Message Value Code:

• `env`: Odoo environment for ORM access.
• `user`: Current user (env.user).
• `ctx`: Copy of the current context (dict(env.context)).
• `record`: Current record (the form’s record).
• `draft`: The persisted field values of the ORM record (before applying the current form’s unsaved changes) + the current unsaved changes on trigger fields. Should be used instead of record when your rule is triggered dynamically by an update to a trigger field. It doesn’t include any values from complex fields (one2many/reference, etc).
• `record_id`: Integer id of the record being edited, or False if the form is creating a new record.
• `model`: Shortcut to the current model (env[record._name]).
• `url_for(obj): Helper that returns a backend form URL for `obj.
• `context_today(ts=None)`: User-timezone “today” (date) for reliable date comparisons.
• time, `datetime`: Standard Python time/datetime modules.
• `dateutil`: { “parser”: dateutil.parser, “relativedelta”: dateutil.relativedelta }
• `timezone`: pytz.timezone for TZ handling.
• float_compare, float_is_zero, `float_round`: Odoo float utils for precision-safe comparisons/rounding.

All of the above are injected by the module to the safe_eval locals.

Trigger Fields

Trigger Fields is an optional list of model fields that, when changed in the open form, cause the banner to recompute live. If left empty, the banner does not auto-refresh as the user edits the form.

When a trigger fires, the module sends the current draft values to the server, sanitizes them, builds an evaluation record, and re-runs your message_value_code.

You should use draft instead of record to access the current form values if your rule is triggered based on an update to a trigger field.

Message setting examples:

A) Missing email on contact (warning)

• Model: res.partner
• Message: This contact has no email.
• Message Value Code:

{"visible": not bool(record.email)}

B) Show partner comment if available

• Model: purchase.order
• Message: Vendor Comments: ${comment}
• Message Value Code (single expression):

{
  "visible": bool(record.partner_id.comment),
  "values": {"comment": record.partner_id.comment},
}

It is also possible to use “convenience placeholders” without an explicit values key:

{
  "visible": bool(record.partner_id.comment),
  "comment": record.partner_id.comment,
}

C) High-value sale order (dynamic severity)

• Model: sale.order
• Message: High-value order: ${amount_total}
• Message Value Code:

{
  "visible": record.amount_total >= 30000,
  "severity": "danger" if record.amount_total >= 100000 else "warning",
  "values": {"amount_total": record.amount_total},
}

D) Quotation past validity date

• Model: sale.order
• Message: This quotation is past its validity date (${validity_date}).
• Message Value Code:

{
  "visible": bool(record.validity_date and context_today() > record.validity_date and record.state in ["draft", "sent"]),
  "values": {"validity_date": record.validity_date},
}

E) Pending activities on a task (uses `env`)

• Model: project.task
• Message: There are ${cnt} pending activities.
• Message Value Code (multi-line with result):

cnt = env["mail.activity"].search_count([("res_model","=",record._name),("res_id","=",record.id)])
result = {"visible": cnt > 0, "values": {"cnt": cnt}}

F) Product is missing internal reference (uses trigger fields)

• Model: product.template
• Trigger Fields: default_code
• Message: Make sure to set an internal reference!
• Message Value Code:

{"visible": not bool(draft.default_code)}

G) HTML banner linking to the customer’s last sales order (uses trigger fields)

• Model: sale.order
• Trigger Fields: partner_id
• Message: (leave blank; html provided by Message Value Code)
• Message Value Code (multi-line with result):

domain = [("partner_id", "=", draft.partner_id.id)]
if record_id:
  domain += [("id", "<", record_id)]
last = model.search(domain, order="date_order desc, id desc", limit=1)
if last:
  html = "<strong>Previous order:</strong> <a href='%s'>%s</a>" % (url_for(last), last.name)
  result = {"visible": True, "html": html}
else:
  result = {"visible": False}

If we set up the rules for a partner record as shown below:

The banners will be displayed in the partner form view:

Once the values are filled in, the banners will disappear:

Banner presentation inside <group>

Placing a full-width inline banner inside a <group> is only partially supported. Depending on the target XPath (especially when targeting a <field/> rendered by certain widgets), the banner or surrounding fields may render distorted.

Limitations of draft eval context variable

• draft is always available in the eval context, but for new records (record_id = False) it only contains the trigger fields from the banner rules.
• For existing records, draft overlays the trigger field values on top of the persisted record; all other fields come from Model.new defaults rather than the database.
• Only simple field types are included: char, text, html, selection, boolean, integer, float, monetary, date, datetime, many2one, and many2many. one2many/reference/other types are omitted.

Authors

• Quartile

Contributors

• Quartile:
  • Yoshi Tashiro
  • Aung Ko Ko Lin

Maintainers

This module is maintained by the OCA.

OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and promote its widespread use.

This module is part of the OCA/web project on GitHub.

You are welcome to contribute. To learn how please visit https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute.