How to Temporarily Lock a Location During Inventory Count in Odoo?

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Hello,
), and I would like to *Location* during inventory operations such as stocktaking. The goal is to * users from adding or removing products* (via transfers, sales, purchases, manufacturing, etc.) while the inventory count is in progress.
Is there a built-in feature or recommended workaround to:

Temporarily disable operations on a specific warehouse?

Restrict any stock movements (inbound/outbound/internal) for that warehouse during a defined period?
Any help or guidance would be appreciat

Ray Carnes (ray) · Answer

In the Warehouse, you would block the area with a chain or tape and a sign so that employees know that counting is in progress.
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In Odoo, you can mimic this process by renaming the location, then rename it back when you are finished counting.
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While this does not block Users, it does alert them.
Since the chain or tape in the Warehouse does not stop employees from taking something while counting is in progress, you are both matching the real-world process and leveraging out of

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