[MERGE] forward port branch saas-11.3 up to cd5c8a02f95

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/addons/web_editor/controllers/main.py b/addons/web_editor/controllers/main.py
index 7bb6f77a649..5c7b5316d44 100644
--- a/addons/web_editor/controllers/main.py
+++ b/addons/web_editor/controllers/main.py
@@ -51,11 +51,16 @@ class Web_Editor(http.Controller):
 
         kwargs.update(trans)
 
-        record = None
-        if model and kwargs.get('res_id'):
-            record = request.env[model].with_context(trans).browse(kwargs.get('res_id'))
+        content = None
+        if model:
+            Model = request.env[model].with_context(trans)
+            if kwargs.get('res_id'):
+                record = Model.browse(kwargs.get('res_id'))
+                content = record and getattr(record, field)
+            else:
+                content = Model.default_get([field]).get(field)
 
-        kwargs.update(content=record and getattr(record, field) or "")
+        kwargs.update(content=content or '')
 
         return request.render(kwargs.get("template") or "web_editor.FieldTextHtml", kwargs, uid=request.uid)