Default value of a field

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Hello

Is there a way that the administrator can define a default value for certain fields for it’s users (without development)

regards

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No because it will break everything without proper testing.

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You can take a look to our fork of default_value third party module. Our fork allows to define default values per user.

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I’m curious to know why you need such feature to be done without development.
Creating a custom module to set the default values for the fields is an easy task

I do not see what it should be broken.
If the default value is from the proper type it should not cause any issue.

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I guess you never supported random users setting default value on OpenERP?
There are soo much possible failure like bad default state, incoherent default values, none accessible value, etc.

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For example to allow the administrator (who is not a developer) to define default payment terms (if the third party does not have one) or default advance payment term.

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This is a typical case which can not be solved by a pseudo-generic default values tool because this can not enforce data integrity for Many2One values. (And more over it will badly fail to support multi-company.)
But on contrary this should be managed by a configuration model.

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So for this question, but what is a configuration model ?

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All the singleton Model that are used as “Configuration” entry.