diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
index 0e7eca43eda..607bf7b8a00 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
@@ -2909,13 +2909,18 @@ openerp.web.form.FieldBinaryFile = openerp.web.form.FieldBinary.extend({
     },
     set_value: function(value) {
         this._super.apply(this, arguments);
-        var show_value = (value != null && value !== false) ? value : '';
+        var show_value;
+        if (this.node.attrs.filename) {
+            show_value = this.view.datarecord[this.node.attrs.filename] || '';
+        } else {
+            show_value = (value != null && value !== false) ? value : '';
+        }
         this.$element.find('input').eq(0).val(show_value);
     },
     on_file_uploaded_and_valid: function(size, name, content_type, file_base64) {
         this.value = file_base64;
         this.binary_value = true;
-        var show_value = this.human_filesize(size);
+        var show_value = name + " (" + this.human_filesize(size) + ")";
         this.$element.find('input').eq(0).val(show_value);
         this.set_filename(name);
     },
diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml b/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
index cf517fef490..c71dc5c7309 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/xml/base.xml
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@
     <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
     <tr>
         <td width="100%">
-            <input type="text" size="1"
+            <input type="text" size="1" readonly="readonly"
                 t-att-name="widget.name"
                 t-att-id="widget.element_id + '_field'"
                 t-attf-class="field_#{widget.type}" style="width: 100%"