In Odoo it’s easy to make a field visible only for certain groups of users (and therefore invisible for all other users).
It’s not so easy to make a field Read-Only for selected users (or set other attributes). Fortunately there is a fairly simple way to do it with only a few lines of Python.
Step One – add a new Boolean field using Studio
Step Two – edit field information to make it a computed field
You can click on the “More” button shown above, or navigate to Settings / Technical / (Database Structure) / Fields:
Stored: False
Dependencies: x_studio_authorization1
Compute (Python Code):
for record in self:
record['x_studio_authorization1'] = False
if self.env.user.has_group('<UserAccessGroup>'):
record['x_studio_authorization1'] = True
You can select any User Access Group to control this. In the above screenshot we used product.group_stock_packaging (Manage Product Packaging), but you can choose whatever you want.
Step three: use this boolean field to control attributes. In this example we will make the ‘Barcode’ field non-display if the user is not a member of the User Access Group.
Of course you can make the Boolean field non-display later when it’s working (but you can’t remove it).
This is the XML generated by Studio:
<xpath expr="//field[@name='barcode']" position="attributes">
<attribute name="readonly": [["x_studio_authorization1","=",False]]}</attribute>
</xpath>
In simplified form, it would be like this:
<field name="barcode" attrs="{'readonly': [["x_studio_authorization1","=",False]]}"/>
This doesn’t work for creating a new record
The boolean field is not set, so no-one can enter a barcode!
A possible workaround is to set a default for selected users:
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Hi,
thanks for the tips but when I’m try it I have this error message when I want to see my form (lead/opportunity):
crm.lead(76,).x_studio_auth
(x_studio_auth is the name of my field 😉 )
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this is my code:
for record in self:
if self.env.user.has_group(‘base.group_erp_manager’):
record[‘x_studio_auth’] = True
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Can you the post the full error text. There are various things that could be wrong!
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yeah, that’s all: crm.lead(76,).x_studio_auth in a message box called “Something went wrong !”
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I precise there is no error when I’m connected under administrator profile (who is on the good group “group_erp_manager”), only if I’m a “standard” user, not in “group_erp_manager”
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I tested this with another “ordinary” user and I didn’t get any error. What version of Odoo are you using?
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Odoo 13.
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Yes, it seems not to work in Odoo 13. I will try to find out why!
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when you check “stored” there is no error message but it doesn’t work. Awaiting function is not the good.
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Yes, you are correct. My working theory is that it’s because the computed field is calculated as “superuser” when it’s stored, but not when it isn’t (could be wrong).
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Updated to add a line to Python code (fix provided by Kanak Info Systems).
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any idea when the update will applied?
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I already updated the post with the extra line of code. It’s the first line
record[‘x_studio_authorization1’] = False
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thanks! Very great job !
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