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Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Gajjar, Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Gajjar, Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is a powerful framework known for rapid application development. Its latest release, Odoo 12, introduces tons of new features. With this book, you’ll learn how to develop powerful Odoo applications from scratch, using all the latest features. This Odoo cookbook starts by covering Odoo installation and deployment on the server. Next, you’ll explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You’ll create a new Odoo module from the ground up and progress to advanced framework concepts. You’ll also learn how to modify existing applications, including Point of Sale (POS). This book is not just limited to backend development; the advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets will help you build beautiful UI elements. As you move forward, you’ll gain insights into website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated tests. Finally, you’ll learn the latest concepts like multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, and IoT Box. By the end of the book, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to build powerful Odoo applications. The development best practices used in this book will undoubtedly come handy when you are working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Accessing recordsets as a superuser

In the previous recipes, we saw security techniques, such as access rules, security groups, and record rules. With these techniques, you can avoid unauthorized access. Sometimes, however, you have complex business cases in which you want to access or modify records, even if the user doesn't have access to them. For example, let's say the public user doesn't have access to the leads records, but by submitting the website form, the user can generate leads records in the backend.

Using sudo(), you can access recordsets as a superuser. We already saw sudo() in the Changing the user that performs an action recipe of Chapter 9, Advanced Server-Side Development Techniques. Here, we will see that even if you have given ACL rules or have added a security group on the field, you can still get access through sudo().

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