[SOLVED] How to compute on load?

How to compute on load?

I have a model like this:

# Calculated Fields
request = fields.Many2one('job.request', string='Request', required=True)    
e_name = fields.Char('Nama Asset', store=False, compute="_compute_initial")

@api.depends('request')
def _compute_initial(self):
    for record in self:
        r = record.request
        record.e_name = r.equipment_id.name

And I need to assign a value to e_name, taken from its parent, for display purposes only, as equipment from "job.request". The problem is that _compute_initial doesn't get executed, even though I've put the e_name field on the form, the value is empty.

So, how to execute _compute_initial to fill in the e_name field?

Solution

as mentioned above in the comments, for new records (and dynamic changes on the web!) you want to use onchange; always assume someone will create a record in code somewhere somehow so also make sure you keep your depends.

request = fields.Many2one('job.request', string='Request', required=True)    
e_name = fields.Char('Nama Asset', store=False, compute="_compute_initial")

@api.onchange('request')
@api.depends('request')
def _compute_initial(self):
    for record in self:
        r = record.request
        record.e_name = r.equipment_id.name