Last year I published two articles on hacking OpenERP 6.0 user interface, one to demonstrate how to monkey-patch native Javascript behavior , the other to show how to tweak widgets

Both methods are based on an injection of inline Javascript code via XML view definition. In OpenERP 6.1, as highlighted by Timothy you can no longer leverage this dirty trick: Javascript is stripped out of the XML stream.

But I found new ways of hacking OpenERP’s web client in 6.1. Following these discoveries, I’ve created a the experimental web_smile_hide_buttons addon to hide the hard-coded create and duplicate buttons on form views.

This module is not generic: it just demonstrate how to distribute dirty patches to the web client. It currently:

  • Hide create buttons on all list views (affect tree views and many2one search view pop-ups),

  • Hide the save button on form views,

  • Hide create and duplicate button on all read-only form views,

  • Only apply these transformations to a configurable subset of models.

The core of the module lies in the /static/src/js/custom.js file. Here is an excerpt of that file, which sums-up my hacks: 

openerp.web_smile_hide_buttons = function(openerp) {

    // Models for which we'll hide create and duplicate buttons
    var MODELS_TO_HIDE = ['res.partner'];

    // Hide the create button on all list views, which affect tree views and many2one pop-up search view
    openerp.web.ListView.include({
        start: function() {
            var self = this;
            var ret = this._super.apply(this, arguments);
            var res_model = this.dataset.model;
            if ($.inArray(res_model, MODELS_TO_HIDE) != -1) {
                self.options.addable = false;
            };
            return ret;
        },
    });

    // Hide the save button on form views
    openerp.web.FormView.include({
        on_loaded: function(data) {
            var self = this;
            var ret = this._super.apply(this, arguments);
            var res_model = this.dataset.model;
            if ($.inArray(res_model, MODELS_TO_HIDE) != -1) {
                this.$element.find('button.oe_form_button_save').remove();
            };
            return ret;
        },
    });

    // Hide the create and duplicate button on all page views (i.e. read-only form views)
    openerp.web.PageView.include({
        on_loaded: function(data) {
            var self = this;
            var ret = this._super.apply(this, arguments);
            var res_model = this.dataset.model;
            if ($.inArray(res_model, MODELS_TO_HIDE) != -1) {
                this.$element.find('button.oe_form_button_create').remove();
                this.$element.find('button.oe_form_button_duplicate').remove();
            };
            return ret;
        },
    });

};

As you can see in the full version of the code above , I tried to hide create entries of many2one context menus, but failed to.

And to make the module really complete, I still have to find a way to hide create & modify entries of many2one drop-down menus. If you have some working code that’s doing this, feel free to send me a pull request on GitHub.