When users create an automated action to trigger when a record is updated,
they assume each update is 'atomic' in some sense.
It is not the case, as one write may trigger many write, some in recompute.
As a result, any update may trigger a dozen actions (or more).
We add a field wich allows us to specify which field we want to watch.
For instance, you could select the field 'state on quotation',
and thus only action would be triggered on confirming the quotation.
The link_field_id is a field that allows to link a record of the source model
to a new record of the target model, through a many2one.
However many target records can be created, so every one of them
(except the last) ends up orphan.
We allow for one2many and many2many fields to be used,
and in these cases we add the newly created record to the list.
opw 1910671
Together d60f2ab0e2 and
24ca67b545
corrected the triggering of automated actions at *each* recompute of a field
It is problematic since, maybe, the field that should trigger an action
*is* a computed one. It often happens with "state"-like fields
This commit aims at applying the logic of those two commits,
except in the case we do want the action to be triggered
even in a recompute case
OPW 1935727
closesodoo/odoo#31422
Signed-off-by: "Lucas Perais (lpe)" <lpe@odoo.com>
bad ux: it's difficult to understand why there is two way to do the
same thing. (4 fields for domains, instead of 2)
Example of confusion:
What happens if you set both a filter and a domain?
What happens if you change the filter? does it change the
automation?
The new domain widget is good enough. We don't need such extra fields.
Purpose of this commit is to continue to clean server actions, scheduled
actions and automated actions. Server actions hold code execution and
automated actions hold triggers and conditions.
This commit make automated action inherits from ir_actions_server.
Automated actions do not hold several server actions anymore. Instead
each new automated action creates its own server action holding the code
or actions to perform. Automated actions that held several server actions
should now simply use a server action of type multi. This commit also
features:
* rename 'kind' field to trigger
* remove 'act_user_id' as this should be done by the server action itself
not the automated action. This can be achieved using a write or code
server action;
* remove 'act_followers' as this is replaced by a followers server action;
* use a primary form view inherited from server action. This way automated
actions use the same base form as server actions with triggers and
conditions added;
Thanks to @fpodoo for the original idea and preliminary work. Thanks to
@jpr-odoo for first developments. Thanks to @jem-odoo and @rco-odoo
for reviewing.
First step towards cleaning and improving automated actions is to
correctly name things. base_action_rule module is therefore renamed
to base_automation. Model is also renamed to base.automation.
Christophe Simonis