Odoo Development Cookbook

Limit access to fields in models

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

It is possible for a field to be accessible only by specific security groups, using the groups attribute. We will show how to add to the Library Books model a field with limited access.

How to do it...

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

1. Edit the model file to add the field:

   private_notes = fields.Text(groups='base.group_system')

2. Edit the view in the XML file to add the field:

   <field name="private_notes" />

That's it. Now upgrade the addon module for the changes in the model to take place. If you sign in with a user with no system configuration access, ...