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Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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

Odoo 14 Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

5 (2)
By: Gajjar, Fayolle, Holger Brunn, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

With its latest iteration, the powerful Odoo framework released a wide variety of features for rapid application development. This updated Odoo development cookbook will help you explore the new features in Odoo 14 and learn how to use them to develop Odoo applications from scratch. You'll learn about the new website concepts in Odoo 14 and get a glimpse of Odoo's new web-client framework, the Odoo Web Library (OWL). Once you've completed the installation, you'll begin to explore the Odoo framework with real-world examples. You'll then 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) applications. This book isn't just limited to backend development; you'll discover advanced JavaScript recipes for creating new views and widgets. As you progress, you'll learn about website development and become a quality Odoo developer by studying performance optimization, debugging, and automated testing. Finally, you'll delve into advanced concepts such as multi-website, In-App Purchasing (IAP), Odoo.sh, the IoT Box, and security. By the end of the book, you'll have all the knowledge you need to build impressive Odoo applications and you'll be well versed in development best practices that will come in handy when working with the Odoo framework.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Limiting access to fields in models

In some cases, we may need more fine-grained access control, and we may also need to limit access to specific fields in a model.

It is possible for a field to only be accessed by specific security groups, using the groups attribute. In this recipe, we will show you how to add a field with limited access to the Library Books model.

Getting ready

We will continue using the my_library module from the previous recipe.

How to do it...

To add a field with access that's limited to specific security groups, perform the following steps:

  1. Edit the model file to add the field:
    is_public = fields.Boolean(groups='my_library.group_library_librarian')
    private_notes = fields.Text(groups='my_library.group_library_librarian')
  2. Edit the view in the XML file to add the field:
    <field name="is_public" /> 
    <field name="private_notes" /> 

That's it. Now, upgrade the add-on module...