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We want to control income and expense account by default only from Product Categories.  But I am not able to avoid that when you create a new product, the fields for Income account and Expense account are filled.  And user must remember to delete the value. If they forget, we get postings to wrong account.


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I think it's possible to use Automated Actions, but not quite in the way I originally expected.

The full details are here: Use Automated Actions to set income and expense accounts

This is the Python code

for record in records: 
    record['property_account_income_id'] = record.categ_id.property_account_income_categ_id 
    record['property_account_expense_id'] = record.categ_id.property_account_expense_categ_id
It would be better to set these to blank, but when I try that nothing happens.
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You described the problem correct: " As standard, Odoo leaves them blank so this should not be required." And that is my issue: I do not understand why these fields are filled by default. I think I will report it as an official issue.

Be interesting to know how to recreate it!

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Hi Lars:

These fields don't have defaults defined out of the box. Someone may have defined default values for the accounts. 

Activate developer mode. Go to ​Settings > Technical > Actions > User Defined Defaults  and check if there are defaults defined for these fields. 

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Already checked. No default defined. And it is not possible to set a blank default. Thanks anyway.

You could use Automated Actions to set these to blank.