diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
index 3e5d3860a48..58067c5e4d1 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ instance.web.FormView = instance.web.View.extend(instance.web.form.FieldManagerM
         var shown = this.has_been_loaded;
         if (options.reload !== false || !this.datarecord.id) {
             shown = shown.then(function() {
-                if (self.dataset.index === null) {
+                if (self.dataset.index === null || !self.datarecord.id) {
                     // null index means we should start a new record
                     return self.on_button_new();
                 }
diff --git a/addons/web/static/test/list-editable.js b/addons/web/static/test/list-editable.js
index a91d5012123..3032ae7e5f0 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/test/list-editable.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/test/list-editable.js
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ openerp.testing.section('editor', {
         mock('test.model:onchange', function () {
             return {};
         });
+        mock('test.model:default_get', function () {
+            return {};
+        });
     }
 }, function (test) {
     /**
@@ -211,7 +214,7 @@ openerp.testing.section('list.edition', {
         });
     }
 }, function (test) {
-    test('newrecord', {asserts: 6}, function (instance, $fix, mock) {
+    test('newrecord', {asserts: 7}, function (instance, $fix, mock) {
         var got_defaults = false;
         mock('demo:default_get', function (args) {
             var fields = args[0];