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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.
V12 EE on SAAS
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:It would be better to set these to blank, but when I try that nothing happens.
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
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!
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.
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.
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