Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

Row-level access rules

We can find the Record Rules option in the Technical menu, alongside Access Control List.

Record rules are defined in the ir.rule model. As usual, we need to provide a distinctive name. We also need the model they operate on and the domain filter to use for the access restriction. The domain filter uses the usual list of tuples syntax used across Odoo. We will be explaining this Domain Expression syntax in Chapter 7, Business Logic - Supporting Business Processes.

Usually, rules apply to some particular security groups. In our case, we will make it apply to the Employees group. If it applies to no security group in particular, it is considered global (the global field is automatically set to True). Global rules are ...