from odoo import models, fields, _ from odoo.exceptions import UserError class ApprovalCleanerWizard(models.TransientModel): _name = 'approval.cleaner.wizard' _description = 'Approval Cleaner Wizard' date_end = fields.Date(string="End Date", required=True, help="Delete all approvals created before this date") def action_clean_approvals(self): self.ensure_one() # Search for approvals created before the specified date # using 'create_date' as it is the standard Odoo field for creation time. # However, the user request mentioned "Date below specified date i provide". # 'approval.request' has a 'date' field (which seems to be a datetime) and 'create_date'. # I will use 'date' field as per the user's initial description if implicit, but looking at approval_request.py # date = fields.Datetime(string="Date") # So I will use that. domain = [('date', '<', self.date_end)] approvals_to_delete = self.env['approval.request'].sudo().search(domain) count = len(approvals_to_delete) # Detach attachments to bypass ir.attachment unlink restriction attachments = self.env['ir.attachment'].sudo().search([ ('res_model', '=', 'approval.request'), ('res_id', 'in', approvals_to_delete.ids), ]) if attachments: attachments.write({'res_model': 'approval.cleaner.temp', 'res_id': 0}) approvals_to_delete.unlink() # Now delete the attachments safely if attachments: attachments.unlink() return { 'type': 'ir.actions.client', 'tag': 'display_notification', 'params': { 'title': _('Success'), 'message': _('%s approvals have been deleted.', count), 'type': 'success', 'sticky': False, 'next': {'type': 'ir.actions.act_window_close'}, } }