Hey Parth, Thanks for your answer, my goal is the following: in a listview child of a form view (one2many widget) I have one fields.text that holds a lot of text. Since there is no option to truncate the text shown when the whole form is in view mode, I did as advised in another post. I created a fields.function that returns a truncated version of my fields.text. Now, I want to have the fields.text to be visible in the listview when the form is in edit mode only, and the fields.function (truncated text) to be visible when the form is in view mode.

in the previous post mentionned in my question, someone advised setting the invisble attribute with invisible="context.get('set_editable',False)" but I found out that the set_editable key is not in the context. Therefore I want to clarify within this post : is there a way to find out in what state (edit|view) a form is at all ?

Means you want to enable and disable whole column during switching between edit and saved mode .... I don't know about Is there a way to find out in what state (edit|view) a form is at all ?

But one other thing is pass class="oe_edit_only" this will disable field in saved mode and display that field in edit mode. but i never try that on one2many. Try it and see what happen

that was a good track at first but so far it has no effect. Though the css trick should be investigated. I actually tried it on a label and it didn't affect visibility, even though the class was on the dom element.

correction : it does work on a label, I had initially tested on a validated sale.order that could not be edited anymore, therefore not in edit mode. But on a draft sale.order it worked on a label. It still doesn't work on a table column though.

Then there are 2 options .........

First made own widget(this is hard) .......

Second easiest way is use Jquery And JavaScript

For Local Jquery and javascript See this link Local CSS,JQuery and javascript in Openerp

ok, so no easy way then. Thanks for the help anw !

Back to this topic, I looked through the CSS but didn't spot a class that does the opposite like class="oe_browse_only" ... any hint ?

I'd love to see some example code of this Dr Obx!