Purpose of this commit is to rename type column to something matching the
the real business use of the field. That way it is easier to find and grep
in the code. It also lessens potential conflicts with type build-in python
function. It also lessens conflicts when using the field in JS as type
is a build-in attribute.
Renaming type column is a long-living issue. We choose to do it at the
beginning of the v13 development to catch errors as soon as possible.
This commit is linked to task ID 1896245. It is also a subpart of community
PR #27599.
Purpose of this commit is to give description more "business oriented"
because those descriptions appears in Odoo Studio which is supposed to be used by end users, not only by developers.
Related Task ID : 37311
Incoming email servers have an action_id field holding a server action to
run on newly created records. It comes from old implementation of mail
gateways in Odoo. Since then mail gateway has evolved. Incoming mail servers
are not linked to a unique model anymore. With aliases and automatic thread
creation mails can create records in various models.
As the server action is bound to a given model it causes issues. Either
we have to give back the result of the mail gateway processing to ensure
models match. Either we have to limit action_id to records created
using the "default model behavior" of incoming mail servers.
We choose to remove this field. Same result can be achieved with an
automated action running on create trigger. If exactly the same
behavior is intended the following rules should be applied
* add automated action with model linked to the one you want to
update depending on alias configuration and work flow;
* set trigger to create;
* set action as python;
* if it is necessary to be linked to the mail gateway, check in
record message_ids that there is a message with message_type
being 'email' meaning it has received an incoming email;
Using that heuristic migrating existing fetchmail action to server actions
should be quite straightforward and will give more flexibility.
This commit is linked to task ID 58641. Closes#23621 .
Christophe Simonis