Passing active_id to action window in openerp7

Question

I building a custom module in openerp version 7. I'm facing problems in trying to link an anchor tag in a kanban view item to an action window which will open the clicked on item in a form view.

Here's a sinppet of the kanban view

<a  type="action"  name="myaction">
 <img t-att-src="kanban_image('vessel', 'image_medium', record.id.value)" class="oe_employee_picture" />
</a>

Here's the action that will be invoked on click

<record model="ir.actions.act_window" id="myaction">
  <field name="name">Vessel</field>     
  <field name="res_model">vessel</field>
  <field name="view_type">form</field>
  <field name="view_id" ref="crew_management.view_crew_management_vessels_form"/>
  <field name="view_mode">form</field>
  <field name="context">{'id': active_id}</field>
</record>

Currently when clicking on the link it opens the correct form view but empty. It seems that the active id of the selected item is not passed somehow.

Answer 1

To pass the active id of an object use res_id instead.

<field name="context">{'res_id': active_id}</field>

The complete code would be

<a  type="action"  name="action_id">
       <!-- Anything Here -->
</a

<record model="ir.actions.act_window" id="action_id">
  <field name="name">demo</field>     
  <field name="res_model">demo</field>
  <field name="view_type">form</field>
  <field name="view_id" ref="my_module.demo_view_id"/>
  <field name="view_mode">form</field>
  <field name="context">{'res_id': active_id}</field>
</record>

Answer 2

try passing <field name="context">{'active_id': active_id}</field>