odoo-communitytools-team team mailing list archive

[Yannick Buron <yannick.buron@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,


You'll find in this mail the presentation of the features already 
developed in https://launchpad.net/openerp-communitytools.

I'm gonna make quick functional and technical presentations. Please ask 
if you need further details.




Functional presentation


If you want to test on a demo platform, you can connect on 
http://test.wezer.org/, login robert / robert.


On the functional presentation, I'll only speak about the community_* 
modules, which allow to easily install all features related to 
community. They are :

community

community_blog

community_crm

community_event

community_forum

community_marketplace

community_project


For now, all of them except community and community_marketplace does 
nothing more than installing the corresponding official modules (blog, 
forum, event, crm, project etc...), so I'll only speak about what happen 
when you install community and community_marketplace.


When those two modules are installed, and when you are connected as 
simple user, you only see three items on the top menu :


-Messaging, with little more than the native features. Here you can see 
all messages and notifications, and manage the groups you created / you 
belong.


-Association, we use this menu for displaying the members list, a "Your 
account" page and a simplified menu for creating users.

When you go on a member page, you'll notice a new tab "Marketplace", 
where you can see the balance of this member for all currencies and 
where you can override some settings (currencies limit, account to use 
etc...)


-Finally a new item : Marketplace.

Here you can create announcements which will be displayed to other 
members, so you can exchange goods and services. Each announcement can 
be either of Offer or Want type, and can be created from a user or a group.


On your announcement, you specify the quantity available, the location 
and the price you want. Then the others members can make proposals, with 
the currencies of their choice (EUR, internal currency, bitcoin, etc...)


The workflow of the proposal is the following :

draft -> open -> accepted -> invoiced ->payment confirmed -> waiting 
feedback -> closed

Of course, there is also cancel and refused state if the announcer 
refuse the proposal.


While navigating the workflow, account moves are generated in the 
accounting, which in turn refresh the balances available in the members 
pages.


Finally, in the administration menu, you'll find two new items, 
marketplace and vote.

They'll allow you to configure the currencies available in the system, 
their limits, which account they have to use etc... You can also 
configure the votes which will be asked for the feedback after the 
transactions.


This is only a quick presentation of the features, we'll make a 
documentation as soon as we can. Don't hesitate to contact us if you 
want to try the CommunityTools modules and need some help to install 
them, we can also provide a test platform.




Technical presentation


There is 14 modules, 7 are deep modules which add extra features to 
Odoo, 7 are configuration modules which serve to easily configure Odoo 
for community management.




Features modules :


marketplace :

This is currently the biggest module in the CommunityTools, it adds the 
marketplace features and also the alternate currencies management.

I think that this module is too big and shall be split in two, one for 
the marketplace and another one for the alternate currencies management.


mails_group_management :

This module is used to improve mail.group object which is native in 
Odoo. We still have a lot of work to do on them, we want to add 
recursivity to them, have users with admin rights on specific groups, be 
able to use group as "team" for the project management etc...


marketplace_groups :

This module, which have marketplace and mails_group_management as 
dependencies, allow admin of groups to post announcements and 
propositions on the marketplace at the name of a group instead of a 
user. Groups have their own wallet so they can pay and receive currencies.


membership_users :

This module improve the membership official module to have a "My 
account" page and be able to consult the page of other members.

With the new Odoo CMS which add such pages, I believe this module shall 
be refactored.


l10n_fr_marketplace :

The alternate currencies features use account module, and so use the 
charts of account. This module add some extra accounts in french chart 
of account for managing the currencies.

Others l10n_*_marketplace modules shall be developed in the future for 
managing other countries.


vote and web_widget_vote :

These two modules add a vote framework for managing votes on Odoo 
objects. Currently it is used by the marketplace module to rate the 
announcements/propositions and give some kind of feedback.


I think that some modules, like vote and web_widget_vote, shall move in 
others OCA branch.




Configuration modules :

Theses modules are used to easily set an environment for people who want 
to use Odoo for communities. No big features here, only dependencies and 
basic configuration.


community :

The main module, it shall install the member list features, and later 
will contain a wizard to easily install other community modules.


community_blog/event/forum/marketplace/project/crm :

They speak for themselves, install the corresponding modules and do 
basic configuration to configure theses modules for managing communities.

They were developed recently and at this point are only used for the 
dependencies. I want to just have to say to others "Just install 
community_xxx module and the platform will be ready to use"


Please note that all theses modules are in alpha state, many bugs, not 
enough tests, code still need some big cleanup, but at least it works 
enough for us to make working demos.


Yannick.