Jinja as a templating engine was problematic in differents respect:
- introduce external dependency to Odoo (less controll)
- add another templating mechanism in the stack
- specific feature in qweb cannot be reused
- difficulty in rendering easily editable templates
- more knowledge required with no betterment
By replacing jinja with qweb we can now build tools to edit a qweb
that will work with the previously jinja encoded document
(essentially `mail.template` records).
There is a catch however. Some email fields (eg. email_to) used jinja
syntax for rendering dynamic variables (ie. ${object.something} and
${object.something_that_should_not_be_escaped | safe}).
We still want user to use dynamic variables for some char fields (eg.
subject, from, to, ...). We made a new rendering engine called
"inline_template" that will render an expression enclosed by `{{` and
`}}`.
To be able to edit the templates from the backend interface, a
plugin to the Odoo editor has been made for seamlessly edit the
document.
This qweb plugin includes:
- make dynamic variables (eg. `<t t-out="variable"/>`) not editable
(for preventing the user to shoot himself in the foot)
- group and hide related logical branching (ie. t-if, t-elif, and t-else)
in order to see only one at once
- a floating select input to switch visibility of a particular logical
branching
Task-27033
X-original-commit: odoo/odoo@68182baff4
Part-of: odoo/odoo#77377
Replace text fields to html fields as we have our own 'OdooEditor'.
Indeed, it gives more options to users in the way they format their
content without weighting too much on the UI
(tools appear on demand and not by default).
In this commit we replace report_footer and report_header field of
"base.document.layout, res.config.settings" model as
they are related fields of res.company models field
report_footer, report_header.
Task Id: 2499504
X-original-commit: 4c474d0d2055efe81fdc21502aa5957fe80af7ef
Purpose is to have all mail template into a mail_template_data.xml file
when possible. It eases maintenance and update when having to work globally
on template records.
Also update some ``body_html`` declarations still using ``xml`` instead of
``html``.
Task ID-2534550 (Template usage improvement)
Task ID-2477164 (Composer mixin)
Prepares Task ID-27033 (QWeb in templates)
COM PR odoo/odoo#70889
ENT PR odoo/enterprise#18352
PURPOSE
Clean organization of templates in odoo apps: mail.template records in data,
qweb templates (views) used directly in code, notably using post with view.
Purpose is to ease future improvements in posting based on templates.
SPECIFICATIONS
* move those templates in their own file to ease their discovering and
maintenance;
* put them into data (as those are not views even if it contains qweb)
* guidelines are now :
-> Qweb templates should be in data/mail_templates.xml;
-> mail.template records should be in data/mail_template_data.xml;
* put their declaration in no update when not done if template has no
technical code or complex dependency on underlying code;
* move found mail data (mail.message.subtype or mail.activity.type) records
in a mail_data file that should contain only "core" records linked to mail;
LINKS
Task ID-2375767
COM PR odoo/odoo#61814
ENT PR odoo/enterprise#14775
UPG PR odoo/upgrade#1936
Nicolas Bayet