This document discusses several technical tips in Odoo including: 1. How to make menus visible to specific user groups by defining the menu with a "groups" attribute. 2. How to make fields only visible in debug mode by adding "groups=”base.group_no_one”". 3. How to access the current user and database name in XML code. 4. How to send emails from Python code by accessing the mail object and setting the subject, body, from and to attributes. 5. How to override existing functions without affecting the original by defining a new function with the same name.

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2. Here, we are going to discuss some technical features in Odoo.

3. 1. How to make a menu visible for users?
• To make a menu visible for the users other than the administrator,
we have to use the group’s keyword.
• On defining the menu we have to add groups along with it.

4. • If we define a menu like the above, the menu will be only visible for the
administrator.
• If the menu has to be visible for all the users, then we have to change the above
menu definition as follows

5. • Where the “base.group_user” is the group name of the employees.
• As we define the menu like this, the menu will be visible for all the users.
• If the menu wants to show only for specific groups, such as Sales/manager,

6. 2. How to make a field visible in Debug mode only?
To make a field visible only in debug mode, we have to add group attribute for the field

7. • Suppose the above field has to be visible only in the debug mode, then add
groups=”base.group_no_one” to this field
Then the field will be visible only in the debug mode

8. 3. How to Access current user and current DB in XML?
To get the current user details in the XML, we can use the following
user.id -> it will give the Id of the current user
user.name -> it will give the name of current user
user.groups_id -> this will return the groups in which user is a member
To get the database name, we can use the following
request.session.db -> this will return the DB name

9. 4. How to send Email via Python Code?
Now let us check how can we send the e-mail from the python code,

10. • By using the code given we can send the email.
• First of all, we have to access the mail.
• Mail object, then set the subject, body, from and to.
• The given code is based on V10.

11. 5. How to override an existing function?
• How to override an existing function without affecting the original.
• Suppose def get_val is a function in the model test.test, now we can look how to
override this get_val function in the test.test model.

13. • By the given format, we can override an existing function.
• By this, you can add new codes so that this will also get executed along with the
original function execution

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