Sorry, i dont get it.. sorry for my foolishness .. could you help me understand what if its like this for example my records are: id create_uid addr write_uid current 3 5 SG 1 f 4 5 PH 1 f 5 1 PH1 5 t 1 5 PH2 5 t for example i logged as # 5, ofcourse all create_uid with #5 will be shown and if i want to modify (fields with id 3,4,1) their 'current' fields i will just self.write(cr,uid,[3,4,1],{'current':'true'}) its just like hardcoding. what if i want "all" which has contain_id of '5' to be all 'f' what would i change?

I'm not sure I follow you. Based on your requirement search the records based on condition it return search record ids and update the records.

your editted code works, search_ids = self.search(cr, uid, [('create_uid','=',uid)]) if search_ids: for id in search_ids: self.write(cr,uid,[id],{'current':False}) this is what iwanted can you explain the flow please,

using ORM search method based on condition it return matched condition LIst of record ids. And after using search List of ids update the record using write method.

why you replace [ids] with [('create_uid','=',uid)] can you explain ? thx

see the link https://doc.odoo.com/6.0/developer/2_5_Objects_Fields_Methods/methods/ Expressing a search domain (args) Each tuple in the search domain needs to have 3 elements, in the form: ('field_name', 'operator', value)

thank you so much prakash!