Boolean option giving a user read only to a group.

[Ian Beardslee]

We'd like a simple way to setup a user that can ONLY read details within OpenERP.

Currently the way that I do this is make a duplicate of a group (and their inherited groups) and then set the permissions to only have Read Access. Each time we add a new feature I have to go hunting through the changes to the access rights and add those to that Read Only group. This is not the most effective way that things could be done.

If a user is set to have read only access to an existing group, the new menus and access rules are automatically available to that user (albeit in that read only state).

By being able to define a user/group/company combination as read only it should be relatively simple to have some code to decide if a 'Edit' or 'Create' (or 'Duplicate', 'Delete' etc) button is visible to the user.

[Ian Beardslee (ibeardslee)]

This should probably be added to the wishlist, and be considered with https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+bug/1025534

[Ian Beardslee (ibeardslee)]

I'd disagree that it is a duplicate. Related/linked - yes. Duplicate - not strictly. It could be implemented separately to the other bug. But ...

If marking it as a duplicate will mean that this and the true multicompany group/user gets more attention towards being implemented, I'm happy for that to happen.