Introduction
The Odoo Progressive Web Application (PWA) Backend module enables businesses to convert their Odoo backend into a Progressive Web Application, offering a native app-like experience on mobile devices. This module allows for extensive customization, including setting app icons, themes, and display orientations, to align with your brand identity. Additionally, it supports push notifications and multi-company configurations, enhancing user engagement and accessibility.
Key Features
Customizable App Configuration: Define app name, icon, theme colors, and display orientation to match your branding.
Push Notifications: Enable real-time notifications to keep users informed and engaged.
Multi-Company Support: Manage configurations across multiple companies within a single Odoo instance.
Offline Capabilities: Access the backend even without an internet connection, ensuring continuous workflow.
Quick Installation: Simplified setup process with no complex configurations required.
Responsive Design: Optimized for mobile devices, providing a seamless user experience.
Automatic Updates: Ensure users always have the latest version without manual interventions.
Secure Access: Works over HTTPS, ensuring data security and privacy.
User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design that simplifies navigation and usage.
Compatibility: Compatible with various devices and browsers, expanding accessibility.
Benefits
Enhanced User Experience: Provides a mobile app-like experience without the need for app store installations.
Increased Accessibility: Access the backend from any device with a browser, improving flexibility.
Brand Consistency: Customize the app's appearance to reflect your company's branding.
Improved Engagement: Utilize push notifications to keep users informed and engaged.
Cost-Effective: Reduces the need for developing and maintaining separate mobile applications.
Scalability: Easily manage configurations for multiple companies within a single platform.
Offline Access: Continue working even without an internet connection, ensuring productivity.
Security: Ensures secure data transmission and access through HTTPS.
Simplified Maintenance: Automatic updates ensure users always have the latest features and security patches.
Broad Compatibility: Works across various devices and browsers, expanding reach.
Compatibility & Technical Details
Required Modules: Discuss (mail)
License: OPL-1
Technical Name: sh_pwa_backend
Installation Steps:
Install the module via the Odoo Apps interface.
Configure the PWA settings, including app name, icon, theme colors, and display orientation.
Enable push notifications and set up necessary credentials.
Configure multi-company settings if applicable.
Test the PWA functionality across different devices and browsers to ensure compatibility.
PWA (Progressive Web Application) Backend
The PWA (progressive web application) backend works like a normal application on the mobile. It allows you to adjust the custom style as your requirement. We provide icon size, name, display orientation, colors, etc options to make quickly app format. You get a combination of a native app with the website. You can select and configure multi-company for PWA.
PWA Features
- Lower development costs than native mobile apps.
- The PWA provides a combination of a native application with the website.
- Load faster than native apps.
- Fast installation compares to native mobile apps.
- In PWA you have not updating issue that occurs in other applications.
Features
- New feature push notification added. New
- A multi-company option is available for PWA backend.
- Easy to configure the PWA backend with the icon size, name, display orientation, colors.
-
The configuration options,
1) Color: Theme color & Background color.
2) Icon: Icon, Icon mimetype, Icon size.
3) Display orientation: Fullscreen, Standalone, Minimal.
4) General configuration: Name, Short name. - No special configuration required just install it and cheers!
- This module saves your important time. It reduces human efforts.
Notes
- SSL required if you are on the cloud or using IP. As without SSL permission of notification does not work. If you are running odoo on the localhost (http://localhost) then it's not required SSL.
-
Although PWA supports IOS/Android, The firebase push API has some browser limitations, which you can check using the below link.
Firebase Support
Copy Link: https://firebase.google.com/support/troubleshooter/fcm/delivery/diagnose/
web#:~:text=arrow_back%20FCM%20browser%20support%20and,a%20browser%20supports%20messaging%20capabilities
Browser Compatibility With Push API
Copy Link: https://caniuse.com/push-api - Please ask us on [email protected] if any doubt.
v 14.0.3
Configuration for the iPhone icon.
v 14.0.1
Go to "Settings" => "PWA Backend Configuration".
You can configure PWA as per your choice.
You have an option in the display orientation.
You will see plus icon like we have highlighted in the screenshot if you press that then you will see one popup to install the app then press the "Install" button.
Installed PWA backend looks like below.
You can add a multi-company vise PWA configuration.
You can select a multi-company for PWA from here.
Allow User access right, so that user can create a web push notification.
In General Setting, just past firebase keys and config code (First Config Firebase Setup)
Web Push Notification Menu and Tree View.
Web Push Notification Form view, Here you can create a notification.
After 'Validate' notification click 'Send Notification', and users get the notification.
Make sure your users allow the Notification popup in their browsers.
In 'Register User' here you can see the list of all users who are getting notifications.
Web Notification look like below image. Cheers....
Goto Firebase Console and click on add project.
Here add your project name and click next.
If you want google analytics so enable it else disable that and click continue.
click continue.
After adding project, Select 'Web' option click on it.
After that step here just add your project nick name and click register add.
Then next all step and click 'Continue to Console'.
Now here goto project setting.
Here goto 'General' tab and copy 'config' code (make sure only copy selected code as per indicate in this screenshot).
Now goto 'Cloud Messaging' and copu server key and past it in 'Api key' in odoo general setting. Now click on 'Generate Key Pair'.
After that copy that key and past in 'Vapid' in odoo general setting. Thats it.
Version 14.0.4 | Released on : 22 October 2021
- New Compatible With Browsers.
Version 14.0.3 | Released on : 27 July 2021
- New iPhone Icon Configuration Added.
Version 14.0.2 | Released on : 7 June 2021
- New Push Notification Feature Added.
Version 14.0.1 | Released on : 29 June 2020
- Initial Release.
- Please Contact Us at [email protected] to request customization.
- Currently, The firebase notification is tested with android os.
- Yes, This app is compatible with Odoo's Multi-Companies Feature.
- Yes, we provide free support for 90 days.
You May Also Like
Odoo Proprietary License v1.0 This software and associated files (the "Software") may only be used (executed, modified, executed after modifications) if you have purchased a valid license from the authors, typically via Odoo Apps, or if you have received a written agreement from the authors of the Software (see the COPYRIGHT file). You may develop Odoo modules that use the Software as a library (typically by depending on it, importing it and using its resources), but without copying any source code or material from the Software. You may distribute those modules under the license of your choice, provided that this license is compatible with the terms of the Odoo Proprietary License (For example: LGPL, MIT, or proprietary licenses similar to this one). It is forbidden to publish, distribute, sublicense, or sell copies of the Software or modified copies of the Software. The above copyright notice and this permission notice must be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.