Publish management for website-related records

In business flows, there are some cases where you need to allow or revoke page access to public users. One such case is e-commerce products, where you need to publish or unpublish products based on availability. In this recipe, we will see how you can publish and unpublish book records for public users.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the my_library module from the previous recipe.

Important note

If you notice, we have put auth='user' on the /books and /books/ <model("library.book"):book> routes. Please change this to auth='public' to make those URLs accessible for public users.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to enable a publish/unpublish option for book detail pages:

1. Add website.published.mixin to the library.book model like this:

   class LibraryBook(models.Model):
       _name = 'library.book'
       ...