Purpose
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- Quickly share the url to someone else (a client, a colleague,...)
- Ensure that the recipient can access at least
the portal view of the shared record.
- Typically used when a client cannot retrieve the mail to access his order.
The share link can be used in this case.
Specifications
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For any object inheriting form portal.mixin:
- Add a button SHARE (not visible in edit mode)
- When clicking on this button, a popup opens with :
- A warning message for tasks and projects only (see below)
- the link (like in gmail) that can be copied
- Recipients
- mail composer (with preselected template) ==> see below
- button [Send Link] [Copy Link] Discard
- After sharing document, put internal note like
"Document shared to xyz,...." with template message
- Anyone with the link, even anonymous user (not logged in) can have access
to the document with the access token provided in the url.
Impacted models:
- account.invoice (Community)
- project.project (Community)
- project.task (Community)
- purchase.order (Community)
- sale.order (Community)
- helpdesk.ticket (Enterprise)
Warning messages and access rules:
Allowed :
- SO canceled or draft will be accessible with the link
with access_token
- If the customer account is B2B (signup not enabled), the recipient
will anyway see the document as the user specifically wants the
recipient to see the document.
Restrictions :
- For Project and Task, if the privacy is not public, then, there is a
contradiction between the access_token mechanism
and the privacy of the document.
- A warning message will be displayed in the share wizard to inform the
user if the document cannot be visible by the recipients and to
ask him to set the privacy to 'Visible by following customer'.
The send button will, in that case, be hidden.
- To avoid to block the share for a new project, default privacy value
is now set to 'Visible by followong customer'
Technical implementation
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- Move the access_token mechanism (field + methods + mail controller)
to the portal.mixin to be able to use it in a generic way for each object
inheriting the portal.mixin
- Generalise a part of the _*model*_get_page_view_values method
into a single one in portal
- Generalize the _*model*_check_access into the portal controller of the
portal module
- Remove the init_column + default value for the access_token
> old records have an access_token,
> new one won't but it will be generated on demand via the get_access_token
Done for performance reasons
- Add share button into action menu separately. + kanban view context menu
(except for task and project where button not in action menu but 'simple'
button for task and project because other modules already provide action
to send documents by email, which is not the case for project and task.)
- Add a sign_token used to authentify the recipient in the portal view chatter,
if any. The message will be posted as if the user was logged in.
- Set the _get_share_url as private for security reason
- Add a redirect parameter to _get_share_url to get
If false : The direct portal view url
If True : The redirect url (mail/view/?)
- Cleaning up unnecessary code
- Bug fix :
- Before, if user was not logged and record had partner_id,
if partner id was null, post message was done as admin.
Now, the post message is done as public user.
- If the user had an uid but had no access_token, he could be able
to gain the access token of the record.
check_access_rights was missing in the get_access_action.
Task ID : 30985
Closes#25629
This commit moves the whole customer portal to the portal module.
It now completely uses portal and http_routing features and is not
dependent on website anymore.
An override of web controller is added in portal in order to redirect
portal users to /my instead of /web. That way once having the customer
portal installed all share users are correctly redirected to their
account.
All modules defining customer portal templates and controllers are
updated accordingly.
The goal is to prepare the removal of
'portal' module.
Converting a partner into a portal user,
though the wizard is moved in website_portal.
'base' will manage portal user and group, but if
website_portal is not installed, there is nothing
to display for portal user.
- Preserved explicit 3rd-party copyright notices
- Explicit boilerplate should not be necessary - copyright law applies
automatically in all countries thanks to Berne Convention + WTO rules,
and a reference to the applicable license is clear enough.
Mitali Patel