The following methods are mostly used by the web client to render the user interface and perform basic interaction:
- name_get() returns a list of (ID, name) tuples with the text representing each record. It is used by default for computing the display_name value, providing the text representation of relation fields. It can be extended to implement custom display representations, such as displaying the record code and name instead of only the name.
- name_search(name='', args=None, operator='ilike', limit=100) returns a list of (ID, name) tuples, where the display name matches the text in the name argument. It is used in the UI while typing in a relation field to produce the list with the suggested records matching ...
