diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/search.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/search.js
index db91d6bfd27..cf253c3d54b 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/search.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/search.js
@@ -13,24 +13,35 @@ openerp.web.SearchView = openerp.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends openerp.web.Search
      * @param view_id
      * @param defaults
      */
-    init: function(parent, dataset, view_id, defaults) {
+    init: function(parent, dataset, view_id, defaults, hidden) {
         this._super(parent);
         this.dataset = dataset;
         this.model = dataset.model;
         this.view_id = view_id;
 
         this.defaults = defaults || {};
+        this.has_defaults = !_.isEmpty(this.defaults);
 
         this.inputs = [];
         this.enabled_filters = [];
 
         this.has_focus = false;
 
+        this.hidden = !!hidden;
+        this.headless = this.hidden && !this.has_defaults;
+
         this.ready = $.Deferred();
     },
     start: function() {
         this._super();
-        this.rpc("/web/searchview/load", {"model": this.model, "view_id":this.view_id}, this.on_loaded);
+        if (this.hidden) {
+            this.$element.hide();
+        }
+        if (this.headless) {
+            this.ready.resolve();
+        } else {
+            this.rpc("/web/searchview/load", {"model": this.model, "view_id":this.view_id}, this.on_loaded);
+        }
         return this.ready.promise();
     },
     show: function () {
@@ -137,10 +148,7 @@ openerp.web.SearchView = openerp.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends openerp.web.Search
             'defaults': this.defaults
         });
 
-        // We don't understand why the following commented line does not work in Chrome but
-        // the non-commented line does. As far as we investigated, only God knows.
-        //this.$element.html(render);
-        jQuery(render).appendTo(this.$element);
+        this.$element.html(render);
         this.$element.find(".oe_search-view-custom-filter-btn").click(ext.on_activate);
 
         var f = this.$element.find('form');
@@ -246,10 +254,13 @@ openerp.web.SearchView = openerp.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends openerp.web.Search
      * @param e jQuery event object coming from the "Search" button
      */
     do_search: function (e) {
+        if (this.headless && !this.has_defaults) {
+            return this.on_search([], [], []);
+        }
         // reset filters management
         var select = this.$element.find(".oe_search-view-filters-management");
         select.val("_filters");
-        
+
         if (e && e.preventDefault) { e.preventDefault(); }
 
         var data = this.build_search_data();
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
index 51e22b9dad2..1b7a7fe6fcf 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
@@ -463,9 +463,6 @@ openerp.web.FormView = openerp.web.View.extend( /** @lends openerp.web.FormView#
             return $.Deferred().then(success).resolve(_.extend(r, {created: true}));
         }
     },
-    do_search: function (domains, contexts, groupbys) {
-        console.debug("Searching form");
-    },
     on_action: function (action) {
         console.debug('Executing action', action);
     },
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list.js
index c78adf769bd..a5e0c4042b2 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list.js
@@ -391,9 +391,6 @@ openerp.web.ListView = openerp.web.View.extend( /** @lends openerp.web.ListView#
         if (this.sidebar) {
             this.sidebar.$element.show();
         }
-        if (!_(this.dataset.ids).isEmpty()) {
-            this.reload_content();
-        }
     },
     do_hide: function () {
         this.$element.hide();
@@ -442,41 +439,22 @@ openerp.web.ListView = openerp.web.View.extend( /** @lends openerp.web.ListView#
                 self.compute_aggregates();
             }));
     },
-    /**
-     * Event handler for a search, asks for the computation/folding of domains
-     * and contexts (and group-by), then reloads the view's content.
-     *
-     * @param {Array} domains a sequence of literal and non-literal domains
-     * @param {Array} contexts a sequence of literal and non-literal contexts
-     * @param {Array} groupbys a sequence of literal and non-literal group-by contexts
-     * @returns {$.Deferred} fold request evaluation promise
-     */
-    do_search: function (domains, contexts, groupbys) {
-        return this.rpc('/web/session/eval_domain_and_context', {
-            domains: _([this.dataset.get_domain()].concat(domains)).compact(),
-            contexts: _([this.dataset.get_context()].concat(contexts)).compact(),
-            group_by_seq: groupbys
-        }, $.proxy(this, 'do_actual_search'));
-    },
     /**
      * Handler for the result of eval_domain_and_context, actually perform the
      * searching
      *
      * @param {Object} results results of evaluating domain and process for a search
      */
-    do_actual_search: function (results) {
+    do_search: function (domain, context, group_by) {
         this.groups.datagroup = new openerp.web.DataGroup(
-            this, this.model,
-            results.domain,
-            results.context,
-            results.group_by);
+            this, this.model, domain, context, group_by);
         this.groups.datagroup.sort = this.dataset._sort;
 
-        if (_.isEmpty(results.group_by) && !results.context['group_by_no_leaf']) {
-            results.group_by = null;
+        if (_.isEmpty(group_by) && !context['group_by_no_leaf']) {
+            group_by = null;
         }
 
-        this.reload_view(!!results.group_by, results.context).then(
+        this.reload_view(!!group_by, context).then(
             $.proxy(this, 'reload_content'));
     },
     /**
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list_editable.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list_editable.js
index beb2c3ac0a9..6f476f4717d 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list_editable.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_list_editable.js
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ openerp.web.list_editable = function (openerp) {
                     || this.defaults.editable);
         },
         /**
-         * Replace do_actual_search to handle editability process
+         * Replace do_search to handle editability process
          */
-        do_actual_search: function (results) {
-            this.set_editable(results.context['set_editable']);
-            this._super(results);
+        do_search: function(domain, context, group_by) {
+            this.set_editable(context['set_editable']);
+            this._super.apply(this, arguments);
         },
         /**
          * Replace do_add_record to handle editability (and adding new record
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/views.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/views.js
index 4a9e57ebd1d..28e9772da77 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/views.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/views.js
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ db.web.ViewManager =  db.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends db.web.ViewManager# */{
         this.model = dataset ? dataset.model : undefined;
         this.dataset = dataset;
         this.searchview = null;
+        this.last_search = false;
         this.active_view = null;
         this.views_src = _.map(views, function(x) {return x instanceof Array? {view_id: x[0], view_type: x[1]} : x;});
         this.views = {};
@@ -224,35 +225,21 @@ db.web.ViewManager =  db.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends db.web.ViewManager# */{
                 controller.set_embedded_view(view.embedded_view);
             }
             controller.do_switch_view.add_last(this.on_mode_switch);
-            if (view_type === 'list' && this.flags.search_view === false && this.action && this.action['auto_search']) {
-                // In case the search view is not instantiated: manually call ListView#search
-                var domains = !_(self.action.domain).isEmpty()
-                                ? [self.action.domain] : [],
-                   contexts = !_(self.action.context).isEmpty()
-                                ? [self.action.context] : [];
-                controller.on_loaded.add({
-                    callback: function () {
-                        controller.do_search(domains, contexts, []);
-                    },
-                    position: 'last',
-                    unique: true
-                });
-            }
             var container = $("#" + this.element_id + '_view_' + view_type);
             view_promise = controller.appendTo(container);
+            this.views[view_type].controller = controller;
             $.when(view_promise).then(function() {
                 self.on_controller_inited(view_type, controller);
+                if (self.searchview && view.controller.searchable !== false) {
+                    self.do_searchview_search();
+                }
             });
-            this.views[view_type].controller = controller;
+        } else if (this.searchview && view.controller.searchable !== false) {
+            self.do_searchview_search();
         }
 
-
         if (this.searchview) {
-            if (view.controller.searchable === false) {
-                this.searchview.hide();
-            } else {
-                this.searchview.show();
-            }
+            this.searchview[(view.controller.searchable === false || this.searchview.hidden) ? 'hide' : 'show']();
         }
 
         this.$element
@@ -272,14 +259,6 @@ db.web.ViewManager =  db.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends db.web.ViewManager# */{
         }
         return view_promise;
     },
-    /**
-     * Event launched when a controller has been inited.
-     *
-     * @param {String} view_type type of view
-     * @param {String} view the inited controller
-     */
-    on_controller_inited: function(view_type, view) {
-    },
     /**
      * Sets up the current viewmanager's search view.
      *
@@ -293,14 +272,37 @@ db.web.ViewManager =  db.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends db.web.ViewManager# */{
         }
         this.searchview = new db.web.SearchView(
                 this, this.dataset,
-                view_id, search_defaults);
+                view_id, search_defaults, this.flags.search_view === false);
 
-        this.searchview.on_search.add(function(domains, contexts, groupbys) {
-            var controller = self.views[self.active_view].controller;
-            controller.do_search.call(controller, domains, contexts, groupbys);
-        });
+        this.searchview.on_search.add(this.do_searchview_search);
         return this.searchview.appendTo($("#" + this.element_id + "_search"));
     },
+    do_searchview_search: function(domains, contexts, groupbys) {
+        var self = this,
+            controller = this.views[this.active_view].controller;
+        if (domains || contexts) {
+            this.rpc('/web/session/eval_domain_and_context', {
+                domains: [this.action.domain || []].concat(domains || []),
+                contexts: [this.action.context || {}].concat(contexts || []),
+                group_by_seq: groupbys || []
+            }, function (results) {
+                self.dataset.context = results.context;
+                self.dataset.domain = results.domain;
+                self.last_search = [results.domain, results.context, results.group_by];
+                controller.do_search(results.domain, results.context, results.group_by);
+            });
+        } else if (this.last_search) {
+            controller.do_search.apply(controller, this.last_search);
+        }
+    },
+    /**
+     * Event launched when a controller has been inited.
+     *
+     * @param {String} view_type type of view
+     * @param {String} view the inited controller
+     */
+    on_controller_inited: function(view_type, view) {
+    },
     /**
      * Called when one of the view want to execute an action
      */
@@ -360,23 +362,19 @@ db.web.ViewManagerAction = db.web.ViewManager.extend(/** @lends oepnerp.web.View
      * launches an initial search after both views are done rendering.
      */
     start: function() {
-        var self = this;
+        var self = this,
+            searchview_loaded,
+            search_defaults = {};
+        _.each(this.action.context, function (value, key) {
+            var match = /^search_default_(.*)$/.exec(key);
+            if (match) {
+                search_defaults[match[1]] = value;
+            }
+        });
+        // init search view
+        var searchview_id = this.action['search_view_id'] && this.action['search_view_id'][0];
 
-        var searchview_loaded;
-        if (this.flags.search_view !== false) {
-            var search_defaults = {};
-            _.each(this.action.context, function (value, key) {
-                var match = /^search_default_(.*)$/.exec(key);
-                if (match) {
-                    search_defaults[match[1]] = value;
-                }
-            });
-            // init search view
-            var searchview_id = this.action['search_view_id'] && this.action['search_view_id'][0];
-
-            searchview_loaded = this.setup_search_view(
-                    searchview_id || false, search_defaults);
-        }
+        searchview_loaded = this.setup_search_view(searchview_id || false, search_defaults);
 
         var main_view_loaded = this._super();
 
@@ -816,6 +814,8 @@ db.web.View = db.web.Widget.extend(/** @lends db.web.View# */{
     },
     do_switch_view: function(view) {
     },
+    do_search: function(view) {
+    },
     set_common_sidebar_sections: function(sidebar) {
         sidebar.add_section('customize', "Customize", [
             {
diff --git a/addons/web_calendar/static/src/js/calendar.js b/addons/web_calendar/static/src/js/calendar.js
index 5de601e0921..f936547ed8c 100644
--- a/addons/web_calendar/static/src/js/calendar.js
+++ b/addons/web_calendar/static/src/js/calendar.js
@@ -13,9 +13,8 @@ openerp.web_calendar.CalendarView = openerp.web.View.extend({
         this.set_default_options(options);
         this.dataset = dataset;
         this.model = dataset.model;
+        this.fields_view = {};
         this.view_id = view_id;
-        this.domain = this.dataset.domain || [];
-        this.context = this.dataset.context || {};
         this.has_been_loaded = $.Deferred();
         this.creating_event_id = null;
         this.dataset_events = [];
@@ -92,9 +91,6 @@ openerp.web_calendar.CalendarView = openerp.web.View.extend({
 
         this.init_scheduler();
         this.has_been_loaded.resolve();
-        if (this.dataset.ids.length) {
-            this.dataset.read_ids(this.dataset.ids, _.keys(this.fields), this.on_events_loaded);
-        }
     },
     init_scheduler: function() {
         var self = this;
@@ -293,26 +289,17 @@ openerp.web_calendar.CalendarView = openerp.web.View.extend({
         }
         return data;
     },
-    do_search: function(domains, contexts, groupbys) {
+    do_search: function(domain, context, group_by) {
         var self = this;
         scheduler.clearAll();
         $.when(this.has_been_loaded).then(function() {
-            self.rpc('/web/session/eval_domain_and_context', {
-                domains: domains,
-                contexts: contexts,
-                group_by_seq: groupbys
-            }, function (results) {
-                // TODO: handle non-empty results.group_by with read_group
-                self.dataset.context = self.context = results.context;
-                self.dataset.domain = self.domain = results.domain;
-                self.dataset.read_slice(_.keys(self.fields), {
-                        offset:0,
-                        limit: self.limit
-                    }, function(events) {
-                        self.dataset_events = events;
-                        self.on_events_loaded(events);
-                    }
-                );
+            // TODO: handle non-empty results.group_by with read_group
+            self.dataset.read_slice(_.keys(self.fields), {
+                offset: 0,
+                limit: self.limit
+            }, function(events) {
+                self.dataset_events = events;
+                self.on_events_loaded(events);
             });
         });
     },
diff --git a/addons/web_gantt/static/src/js/gantt.js b/addons/web_gantt/static/src/js/gantt.js
index a045bae64e1..73e244edad7 100644
--- a/addons/web_gantt/static/src/js/gantt.js
+++ b/addons/web_gantt/static/src/js/gantt.js
@@ -509,15 +509,7 @@ init: function(parent, dataset, view_id) {
     do_search: function (domains, contexts, groupbys) {
         var self = this;
         this.grp = groupbys;
-        return this.rpc('/web/session/eval_domain_and_context', {
-            domains: domains,
-            contexts: contexts,
-            group_by_seq: groupbys
-        }, function (results) {
-            self.dataset.context = results.context;
-            self.dataset.domain = results.domain;
-            self.reload_gantt();
-        });
+        self.reload_gantt();
     }
 
 });
diff --git a/addons/web_graph/static/src/js/graph.js b/addons/web_graph/static/src/js/graph.js
index 08ceeddc2d9..ffdec860906 100644
--- a/addons/web_graph/static/src/js/graph.js
+++ b/addons/web_graph/static/src/js/graph.js
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ openerp.web_graph.GraphView = openerp.web.View.extend({
         this.group_field = null;
     },
     do_show: function () {
-        // TODO: re-trigger search
         this.$element.show();
     },
     do_hide: function () {
@@ -79,9 +78,6 @@ openerp.web_graph.GraphView = openerp.web.View.extend({
             }
         }, this);
         this.ordinate = this.columns[0].name;
-
-        this.dataset.read_slice(
-            this.list_fields(), {}, $.proxy(this, 'schedule_chart'));
     },
     schedule_chart: function(results) {
         var self = this;
@@ -366,24 +362,14 @@ openerp.web_graph.GraphView = openerp.web.View.extend({
         });
     },
 
-    do_search: function(domains, contexts, groupbys) {
-        var self = this;
-        this.rpc('/web/session/eval_domain_and_context', {
-            domains: domains,
-            contexts: contexts,
-            group_by_seq: groupbys
-        }, function (results) {
-            // TODO: handle non-empty results.group_by with read_group?
-            if(!_(results.group_by).isEmpty()){
-                self.abscissa = results.group_by[0];
-            } else {
-                self.abscissa = self.first_field;
-            }
-            self.dataset.read_slice(self.list_fields(), {
-                context: results.context,
-                domain: results.domain
-            }, $.proxy(self, 'schedule_chart'));
-        });
+    do_search: function(domain, context, group_by) {
+        // TODO: handle non-empty group_by with read_group?
+        if (!_(group_by).isEmpty()) {
+            this.abscissa = group_by[0];
+        } else {
+            this.abscissa = this.first_field;
+        }
+        this.dataset.read_slice(this.list_fields(), {}, $.proxy(this, 'schedule_chart'));
     }
 });
 };
diff --git a/addons/web_kanban/static/src/js/kanban.js b/addons/web_kanban/static/src/js/kanban.js
index 46173341361..23a0b75a322 100644
--- a/addons/web_kanban/static/src/js/kanban.js
+++ b/addons/web_kanban/static/src/js/kanban.js
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ openerp.web_kanban.KanbanView = openerp.web.View.extend({
         this.set_default_options(options);
         this.dataset = dataset;
         this.model = dataset.model;
-        this.domain = dataset.domain;
-        this.context = dataset.context;
         this.view_id = view_id;
         this.fields_view = {};
         this.group_by = [];
@@ -33,9 +31,6 @@ openerp.web_kanban.KanbanView = openerp.web.View.extend({
         var self = this;
         this.fields_view = data;
         this.add_qweb_template();
-        if (this.qweb.has_template('kanban-box')) {
-            this.do_actual_search();
-        }
     },
     add_qweb_template: function() {
         var group_operator = ["avg", "max", "min", "sum", "count"]
@@ -294,7 +289,7 @@ openerp.web_kanban.KanbanView = openerp.web.View.extend({
         this.do_execute_action(
             button_attrs, dataset,
             record_id, function () {
-                self.do_actual_search();
+                self.on_reload_record(record_id);
             }
         );
     },
@@ -427,28 +422,18 @@ openerp.web_kanban.KanbanView = openerp.web.View.extend({
         });
         return new_record;
     },
-    do_search: function (domains, contexts, group_by) {
+    do_search: function (domain, context, group_by) {
         var self = this;
-        this.rpc('/web/session/eval_domain_and_context', {
-            domains: [this.dataset.get_domain()].concat(domains),
-            contexts: [this.dataset.get_context()].concat(contexts),
-            group_by_seq: group_by
-        }, function (results) {
-            self.domain = results.domain;
-            self.context = results.context;
-            self.group_by = results.group_by;
-            self.do_actual_search();
-        });
-    },
-    do_actual_search : function () {
+        self.group_by = group_by;
         var self = this,
             group_by = self.group_by;
         if (!group_by.length && this.fields_view.arch.attrs.default_group_by) {
             group_by = [this.fields_view.arch.attrs.default_group_by];
             self.group_by = group_by;
         }
-        self.datagroup = new openerp.web.DataGroup(self, self.model, self.domain, self.context, group_by);
-        self.datagroup.list(_.keys(self.fields_view.fields),
+        self.datagroup = new openerp.web.DataGroup(self, self.model, domain, context, group_by);
+        self.datagroup.list(
+            _.keys(self.fields_view.fields),
             function (groups) {
                 self.groups = groups;
                 if (groups.length) {
@@ -461,9 +446,12 @@ openerp.web_kanban.KanbanView = openerp.web.View.extend({
             },
             function (dataset) {
                 self.groups = [];
-                self.dataset.read_slice([], {'domain': self.domain, 'context': self.context}, function(records) {
-                    if (records.length) self.all_display_data = [{'records': records, 'value':false, 'header' : false, 'ids': self.dataset.ids}];
-                    else self.all_display_data = [];
+                self.dataset.read_slice([], {}, function(records) {
+                    if (records.length) {
+                        self.all_display_data = [{'records': records, 'value':false, 'header' : false, 'ids': self.dataset.ids}];
+                    } else {
+                        self.all_display_data = [];
+                    }
                     self.$element.find(".oe_kanban_view").remove();
                     self.on_show_data();
                 });
@@ -487,7 +475,7 @@ openerp.web_kanban.KanbanView = openerp.web.View.extend({
             _.each(self.aggregates, function(value, key) {
                 group_aggregates[value] = group.aggregates[key];
             });
-            self.dataset.read_slice([], {'domain': group.domain, 'context': group.context}, function(records) {
+            self.dataset.read_slice([], {'domain': group.domain, 'conext': group.context}, function(records) {
                 self.all_display_data.push({"value" : group_value, "records": records, 'header':group_name, 'ids': self.dataset.ids, 'aggregates': group_aggregates});
                 if (datagroups.length == self.all_display_data.length) {
                     self.$element.find(".oe_kanban_view").remove();