How can I override the create method of a record created from another model in Odoo?

Question

Basically I have a model for hospital appointments, inside that model I have a many-to-one field to another model for patients. What I want is to make that every time I use the "Create and Edit" option in my appointments model to create a record in the patient model this record gets automatically set with state equal to validated (contrary to draft, that is originally set as default), but when I create a patient record from the patient model it saves the record normally, with draft as default

Answer 1

You can use context in xml with field definition for example:

<field name="partner_id" widget="res_partner_many2one" context="{'search_default_supplier':1, 'default_supplier':1, 'default_customer':0, 'show_vat': True}" domain="[('supplier','=',True)]"  placeholder="Name, TIN, Email, or Reference" /> 

Hope this'll help.