Odoo Studio: field attributes based on User Access Groups

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:

14 thoughts on “Odoo Studio: field attributes based on User Access Groups”

  1. 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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    1. 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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      1. Can you the post the full error text. There are various things that could be wrong!

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  3. 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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    1. 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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  4. when you check “stored” there is no error message but it doesn’t work. Awaiting function is not the good.

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    1. 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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      2. 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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