Followers of a discussion in the chatter of Odoo can be informed by email of a new message being created. This module adds in that email the history of the chatter discussion to help the recipient with more context.
auto_awesome What this module does
AI-generated from the code · Odoo 18.0Adds the previous chatter discussion to notification emails, so recipients see the full conversation context before the new message.
When Odoo sends an email notification about a new chatter message, this module can include the earlier discussion directly in that email.
- It looks for previous messages on the same record that are either comments (using the standard comment subtype) or incoming emails, and lists them in the email under a "Discussion history in Odoo" heading.
- Each history entry shows who wrote it, when, and the message body.
- The history is only added when the record's model explicitly allows it: the shared
mail.threadbehaviour has a setting that is off by default, so nothing changes unless a model turns it on. - The new message itself is excluded from the history list.
- The change is made by extending the standard notification email layout, so it applies to the normal Odoo notification emails.
It touches the mail.message model (to find the history) and the mail.thread mixin (to hold the on/off setting). No new menus or screens are added; the effect is visible in the emails that Odoo sends to followers.
Depends on
Models and fields (1)
- mail.message · extends an existing model
Text generated by AI (DeepSeek) from reading the Odoo 18.0 code on GitHub; it may contain mistakes, so check the code before deciding. View the code on GitHub
Availability by version
Reviewed: 2026-11-03Confirmation status: 2 confirmed, 7 with no information of 9 versions.
Sources · Odoo 18.0
Confirmed on 2026-11-03 in branch 18.0 of OCA/social.
terminal Installation and usage
OCA documentation · Odoo 18.0Installation
Source · Odoo 18.0After installing the module its behaviour needs to be activated. This is done by setting the following class variable _mail_notification_include_history to True, on the model that we would like to activate it.
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