[MERGE] Forward-port 8.0 up to 46c5f93b6cfa2b348078e674cd9e271ef5f81292

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
index 755288e03bc..6412d349a1f 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
@@ -6187,13 +6187,20 @@ instance.web.form.FieldStatus = instance.web.form.AbstractField.extend({
             val = $li.data("id");
         }
         if (val != self.get('value')) {
-            this.view.recursive_save().done(function() {
-                var change = {};
-                change[self.name] = val;
-                self.view.dataset.write(self.view.datarecord.id, change).done(function() {
-                    self.view.reload();
+            if(!this.view.datarecord.id ||
+               this.view.datarecord.id.toString().match(instance.web.BufferedDataSet.virtual_id_regex)) {
+                // don't save, only set value for not-yet-saved many2ones
+                self.set_value(val);
+            }
+            else {
+                this.view.recursive_save().done(function() {
+                    var change = {};
+                    change[self.name] = val;
+                    self.view.dataset.write(self.view.datarecord.id, change).done(function() {
+                        self.view.reload();
+                    });
                 });
-            });
+            }
         }
     },
 });