Posting Messages to Chatter in Odoo18

Odoo’s chatter function is crucial for encouraging collaboration and offering insights into various procedures. It facilitates communication and enhances teamwork. Across modules like Sales, Projects, Tasks, and Invoicing, Odoo18 message to chatter, which provides a strong tool for efficient communication and informing users of ongoing action.

The process specifics that revealed through chatter shown in the graphic below

The buzz that indicates the creation of the sales order, the sales order confirmation, and the user who verified it are all in the image above. We can also see the activity that created for person.

In some cases, Odoo 18 requires programmatically sending messages to chatter in Odoo18. For example, you might need to utilize code to directly trigger messages rather than depending on user input when automating procedures or sending updates based on particular actions. This can accomplished by posting messages utilizing Odoo’s built-in features, which enable automated alerts, notifications, or status changes depending on predetermined criteria. This kind of customization of the message posting guarantees that important information quickly and without the need for manual involvement.

How to Post a Message to Chatter in Odoo 18

We make a model student, for instance.to keep track of a student’s course status (such as “draft,” “in_progress,” or “completed”). The course status and a message is immediately sent to the chatter to inform users of the change when they click the “Start Course” or “Complete Course” buttons.

• start_course method: This method sends a message stating that the course has begun and changes the state to “in_progress”.
• _course method: Sends a message stating that the course and changes the status to “completed”.

This tweak makes sure that everyone whenever the course status changes by posting a notice in the discussion.

As can we added a feature that allows you to post a message to the relevant student using self.message_post(body=body), in which the student object by self. The body attribute, which specifies the message that will contains the message’s content. The message_post() method has the following parameters.

Specifications

1. body: The message’s content by the body parameter (str | Markup). It will if it is a string. Use a Markup object to add HTML content.
2. message_type: The mail is used to determine the message type value.field message.type.
3. parent_id: when a message is a private conversation, it contains the parent partners as a reply to an earlier message.
4. Attachments: a list of tuples using the format (name, content) that represent attachments; the content is not base64 encoded.
5. body_is_html: indicates whether the body, even if it is a string, should as HTML.
6. **kwargs: the new mail’s columns’ default values using extra keyword arguments.record of messages
7. email_from: Provides the email address of the author.

We can quickly add a message to the buzz in this way. Let’s now examine the modifications that to the way that messages to chatter in Odoo 18 appear.

If a student’s name in the message, it can into a hyperlink pointing to the student’s record. This can using the _get_html_link() function. Additionally, the message_post() function allows us to enhance the message by specifying the sender, customizing the message’s style, and including a subject The code to achieve this is as follows.

Here, we can see the user, the message that we created, and the subject that is formatted using the template that we gave.

Any record connected to the chatter can be used with this function. Additionally, it gives us the freedom to modify the material to better suit our wants and tastes, enabling us to tailor the message to our own specifications.