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Odoo/OpenERP : _rec_name and name_get()

_rec_name = ‘name’ (by default)  where ‘name’ is field of the model. If ‘name’ field is not there then you have to assign any other filed name to this ‘_rec_name’ variable from columns. Note : If ‘name’ field is there in your columns then there is no need to specify '_rec_name'. Let’s try to dig more using an example. Case I: If you are having hr.employee module with name field and you are using it as reference in other module, say hr.employee.detail to provide other employee details then you will use it as: 'employee_id' : fields.many2one('hr.employee', 'Employee') and it will show you the employee name in selection list. But, In a company, more than one employee can share the same name. So name field can’t be used to differentiate them from each other. But, employee code will be unique for each employee. In such cases, we will take a column field like ‘emp_code’ and will assign it to ‘_rec_name’ _rec_name = ‘emp_code’ So that i