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Kai Hansen

Hey all,

I'm not super familiar with odoo. Sorry for the newbie question.

I'm working with a client that uses odoo 11 community edition (hosted on AWS EC2). They seem to have managed to "hide" the web admin link in their UI - and their technical person has left. I have access to the actual code on the virtual machine, but am not an expert on python.

Is there a standard link how I can reach this? I browsed the forum and I've read about debug mode but I can't figure out how that would help me. 

I understand I can query the DB and make changes directly to the models etc by modifying the python files and related views, but I am just trying to do basic things like look up which users exist or add a column to a table, which from tutorial videos seem to be possible through the UI?

Any help appreciated!

Cheers,

Kai

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Ermin Trevisan

Your description is very unclear. Are you able to login to your Odoo instance? Have you lost the admin user credentials? Don't you know how to activate the developer mode?

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Thank you for your clarification question.

I am able to log into the instance, yes (I also have access to the virtual machine that it runs on). I am not sure if the credentials I have are admin or not (the previous admin is gone).

I expect some form of a link in the UI that takes me to a GUI-based admin section for my instance. I see responses in this forum pointing to a menu sequence like "settings-> users -> administrator". I can't find the initial "settings" in this particular instance. Maybe it was removed by modification of the main template?

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Ermin Trevisan
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Your admin user should belong to the groups "Settings" and "Technical Features". You'll find these groups in the res_groups table in the database. The users are in the res_users table and the relationship is defined in the res_groups_users_rel table.

1. Check the res_users table for an admin user. By default this user has the name admin, but it can be renamed. If you can identify such a user and you don't know the password, please follow this advise:
https://www.odoo.com/forum/help-1/question/how-to-reset-the-odoo-admin-user-password-a-summary-for-different-odoo-versions-131992

2. If you can not identify such a user, you'll have to create one directly in the database, the best way is to add the most suitable existing user to these groups.

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