Odoo - distributed business apps

[mdreira]

@girish Would it be possible to pick up the slack and add Odoo or Flectra in the near future to Cloudron? This would be amazing.

[samir]

@scooke the install process is the cloudron custom app process, described in the doc

[samir]

@LoudLemur The current script is based on the Yenthe666 script, I will publish an odoo12-ce-app very soon. It's pretty easy to adapt the script for odoo13 if you want it, though I've heard (to confirm) that the odoo based on even version are usually more stable than the odd one... I tend to pass the odd version, waiting for the even one.

In my opinion, it makes sense to have separate repo for each odoo version. It's not obvious to update a odoo version, since it requires a special script to update the database (and other stuff...)

[samir]

I've just published the cloudron custom app odoo 12 CE here :
https://git.cloudron.io/altsyst/odoo12-ce-app/

[samir]

For using the cloudron ldap :

1. Create first the user in odoo with an empty password
2. open the ldap parameters in odoo (as admin, config>settings)
3. enter into an odoo terminal and get the cloudron ldap parameters
4. fill in the ldap cloudron parameters (ldap server address, binddn, port, password)
5. For LDAP base : ou=users,dc=cloudron
6. restart odoo app (or cloudron, I don't remember)

[doodlemania2]

@samir Attempting from your script, stuck in a loop:
Traceback (most recent call last):
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo-bin", line 5, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 import odoo
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo/init.py", line 125, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 from . import modules
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo/modules/init.py", line 8, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 from . import db, graph, loading, migration, module, registry
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo/modules/loading.py", line 17, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 import odoo.modules.migration
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo/modules/migration.py", line 12, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 from odoo.modules.module import get_resource_path
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo/modules/module.py", line 25, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 from odoo import SUPERUSER_ID, api
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo/api.py", line 1198, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 from odoo.modules.registry import Registry
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo/modules/registry.py", line 18, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 from odoo.sql_db import TestCursor
Apr 08 12:52:02 File "/app/code/odoo-server/odoo/sql_db.py", line 49, in <module>
Apr 08 12:52:02 import tools
Apr 08 12:52:02 ImportError: No module named 'tools'
Apr 08 12:52:10 => Ensure directories
Apr 08 12:52:10 => Patch config file
Apr 08 12:52:11 => Ensure data ownership

[samir]

@doodlemania2 which script? Odoo 10 or odoo 12? Could you fill an issue on git directly to keep track of the issue? Thanks!

[doodlemania2]

@samir that was from 12, will do so!

[LoudLemur]

@girish Is this ready to be included as an experimental status Cloudron application yet?

[doodlemania2]

@LoudLemur I don't think so - at least not yet. Unable to get it to install cleanly on my CR server, but I think it's close.

[LoudLemur]

@nj

What is the latest on installing Odoo? Is it ready as a Cloudron Beta application yet?

[luckow]

@LoudLemur nope.
but it's been working as a custom app on one of my instances for a few weeks. to get an idea of how odoo works and what you need to learn to implement an erp system in your company, it's top. as a reliable critical app for your company (without knowledge about content migration), you should wait until odoo is an official cloudron app.

[LoudLemur]

@luckow When that day happens, I shall be grinning from ear to ear! I shall probably be jumping up and down in joy too!

[msbt]

@nj thanks for your packaging efforts! I just tried to run odoo and it wouldn't start, it was always looping the First run. Initializing DB... bit. I've jumped in the terminal and ran the cmds manually and eventually figured out, that the /app/data needed chowning to the cloudron-user before it worked - which it now does! So all we need to do is add /app/data/ to https://github.com/njsubedi/cloudron-odoo/blob/main/start.sh#L17

[makemrproper]

@msbt Odoo Community edition hosted on Cloudron would be a massive value add to the Cloudron portfolio. I totally recommend using Cloudron in a business to structure and improve processes. Unless your company has the budget to run Salesforce, or Service Now to do the same.

[LoudLemur]

@makemrproper There is a large and active development community for Odoo. I think it would be quite excited to hear about a Beta of Odoo on Cloudron and they could contribute quite a lot. Hopefully, the other great applications available on Cloudron would catch their notice too, and people would join us.

[LoudLemur]

@nebulon
I hope we are still making progress on supporting Odoo Community Edition on Cloudron.

I think Cloudron users are aware of how powerful a tool Cloudron is. Odoo is a bit like Cloudron, in that it offers one click deployment of modules.

Unlike Cloudron, all the modules on Odoo are built to be interoperable. They push data to each other as needed, populating fields and helping you with auto-fill and reducing laboriousness of many manual tasks.

If you are familiar with Nextcloud (which is of course on Cloudron) then you will be right at home with Odoo.

[mdreira]

@LoudLemur I too hope to see odoo in Cloudron soon. A lot of things would be simplified for us.

[LoudLemur]

@nebulon What is the latest on packaging Odoo for Cloudron? Is there any more progress?

[mdreira]

@LoudLemur looks like no one is working on this

It seems @nj and @samir managed to package it, but I have no idea how to test a custom app