Hi I'm trying to make an inherited view of res.partner.

My model (to begin) is as simple as this:

class genial_2015(osv.osv):

"""Db test genial_2015 """

_name = 'genial.2015'

_inherit = 'res.partner'

_columns = {

'titolo': fields.char ('Titolo', size = 31)

}

So it inherits from res.partner. And it works fine (I will have more fields later).

I'm trying to inherit the "base.view_partner_form" view (so that I will have all the fields properly formatted and the view design in place) and add my custom field to it.

This is my view

<record model="ir.ui.view" id="view_genial_2015_form">

<field name="name">genial.2015.form</field>

<field name="model">genial.2015</field>

<field name="priority" eval="1"/>

<field name="type">form</field>

<field name="inherit_id" ref="base.view_partner_form"/>

<field name="arch" type="xml">

<form string="Partners">

<xpath expr="//field[@name='website']" position="after">

<field name="titolo" />

</xpath>

</form>

</field>

</record>

The module installs and I can see the form, but it's not the well formatted and designed res.partner.from, it's a mess with all the fields confused. Why? What am I doing wrong? Or what am I missing? This is a link to my window (hope it works).

http://postimg.org/image/s6ugg0iod/

My action definition is:

<record model="ir.actions.act_window" id="action_genial_2015">

<field name="name">genial.2015</field>

<field name="type">ir.actions.act_window</field>

<field name="res_model">genial.2015</field>

<field name="view_type">form</field>

<field name="view_mode">form</field>

</record>

I tried to give the view the same name as res.partner with the same model. In such a case I can see the view properly formatted, but there is no way to show my custom field. If I try with <field genial_2015_name="titolo" /> I got an error!

I tried to give the view a lower priority, but nothing changed. Of course modifying res.partner model will solve the problem, but I'd like to understand why I can't make it work with an inherited model.

I'm running  Odoo Version 8.0-a2115ef on Ubuntu 14.04 (Bitnami stack)

Thanks.