I had a similar experience to Damon.  It seems to be a problem with the characters for spacing or line breaks.  I tried manipulating the text in both Bluefish and the gnome Text Editor.  Still got errors.

Finally I opened the .py file in nano at the command prompt.  Some of the line breaks and spacing was shown in a different colour.  After deleting these and replacing it finally worked.

Additional editing in nano seems to work.

Hi Damon,

You need to restart the server and upgrade your module to reflect the new fields that you have created in the model.

Hope this helps,

Thank you

I had the same problem and doing as follow fix the issue:

1. Stop your server
2. Run this command at first:  python3 odoo-bin --update=purchase_request
3. Reload your localhost in browser
4. Upgrade your module
5. Stop server again
6. Now, using the old command (The command you use always) start server again
7. Upgrade your module again
8. Done.

Hi,

I have this error when i add new field to base table such as res.users or res.partner,

if i run service by ugprade module command it is ok.

is there any way without upgrade module commad?

I want restart service and upgrade my module manualy. but is not possible.

thanks

Hi guys! I'm new to Odoo and I just decided to ask a question in this post instead of making the new one, b/c I had the same problem.

I'm using Odoo v10 and I'm trying to customize existing view (base.view_partner_form). Here are my model and view:

class add_supplier1099(models.Model):
    # _name = 'add.supplier1099'     
    _inherit = ['res.partner']     
    _description = "Add Checkbox and TaxID Field if Supplier Requires 1099"    

    supp_test_field = fields.Char(string="test field")

<odoo>     
    <data> 
        <record id="add_supplier1099_view_inherit" model="ir.ui.view"> 
        <field name="name">res.partner.form</field> 
        <field name="model">res.partner</field> 
        <field name="inherit_id" ref="base.view_partner_form"/> 
        <field name="arch" type="xml">     
            <xpath expr="//field[@name='phone']" position="after">                
                <field name="supp_test_field"/>     
            </xpath> 
        </field>         
        </record>    
    </data>
</odoo>

This code works and it adds "supp_test_field" to the form. But if you uncomment # _name = 'add.supplier1099' (I thinks it should add my new field to an existing table of "res.partner" model) it'll through an error:

ValueError: Can't validate view:
Field `supp_test_field` does not exist

I also tried to go with "_name = res.partner" (I thinks it should create a new table with my new field and fields from "res.partner" model), but I was getting the same error. Any ideas why i'm getting this error in the above cases and not getting an error when I comment out "_name" attribute?

Hi,

i too have gone through similar situation .The changes that I make in my py wasn't reflecting.hence I checked if there where many instances running in my backend.There were many idle postgres instances and when I killed them and restarted everything was fine.

I created a new database, and was able to proceed, but only so far.

The first 11 fields (41 total in .py) were added to res.partner and the remaining 30 fields were left alone. So tried multiple times, checked syntax etc. I ended up commenting out the first 11 fields that were being successfully added, created a new db, installed module and all uncommented fields (last 30) populated res.partner, as expected and doing nothing with the commented out first 11.

I don't understand what is happening here, maybe a timeout of some sort?

following are fields 11 and 12 for reference: (the breakpoint as near as I can tell)

itr_name = fields.Char('Name on Income Tax Return') 
prod_svcs = fields.Text('Detailed Explanation of Type of Merchandise, Products or Services Sold:')

Thanks for your time and eyes