Changing the user performing an action

When writing business logic code, you may have to perform some actions with a different security context. A typical case is performing an action with the rights of the Administrator, who bypasses security checks.

This recipe shows us how to let normal users modify the phone number of a company using sudo().

Getting ready

We will work on records of the res.company model. By default, only members of the Administration/Access Rights user group can modify the records of res.company, but in our case, we need to provide an access point to change only the phone number to users who are not necessarily members of that group.

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