Stand-alone module

News feed

Get instant access to the latest discussed topics in your company and keep track of the conversations you follow.

Notifications

Notifications inbox/dashboard provides a bird's eye view of the followed records. Notifications are displayed for all tracked changes (e.g., stage changed, task ready) in the systray.

Star favorites

Star messages with important content to easily find them back in the starred list.

Private Groups

Create secret groups and invite the users.

Status

User status indicators throughout Odoo chatter and DMs. See what colleagues are up to by checking if they are online, offline, away, or out of the office.

Manage participants

Invite participants in private groups and restrict access to channels to a selected group of employees.

Chat window

Turn a conversation into a chat session to keep chatting while switching modules.

Mailing List

Choose to send messages by email allowing a channel to behave as a mailing list.

Mentions

Mention Odoo users (@odoo_username) in conversations, and even channels (#channel_name).

Shortcuts

Start chatting with other users from the command palette on the home (Ctrl+K). Open a DM chat with a user when clicking on the @mention, both on a DM chat/chatter or a user's member name in Discuss.

Graphics

Enliven your conversations with emojis—a wide selection of emojis structured in categories and search functionality. Find your favorite emojis quickly with the "frequently used" section in the emoji selector. Show user avatars in chat. Add a smiley as a reaction to a message. Send GIFs to your colleagues in Discuss.

Communication

Start discussions

Create direct discussions with other employees and create private discussion groups. Edit or delete a message. Edit sent messages in the chatter.

Direct messages

Private - direct message chats. Create a group from a Direct Message.

Group communication

Group messaging chats.

Video conferencing

Video chats with two or more people.

Voice lines

Voice channels to internal users.

Audio messages

Send voice messages via Discuss.

Message actions list

The message actions list has a compact/expand mode.

Channels

Channel communication

Broad and focused messaging channels (customizable). Copy button on channel invitation links. Archive an unused channel.

Subscribe to channels

Create open groups called channels to follow discussions on specific topics. Start getting involved in projects by subscribing to existing channels or creating new ones.

Invite new members to channels

Invite people as new members of channels. Simplified channel notifications. Removal of channels as followers and removal of mail channels.

Chat members

Display the list of members that belong to any given channel.

Private channels

Users who create private channels are automatically added as members.

Join/leave notifications

Less obtrusive join/leave notifications in channels.

Advanced options

Search current user

The current user is included in the chat box search results.

Mark as unread

Users can mark messages as unread in their Discuss conversations and channels to process them later. The sender sees the message as delivered and not seen.

Pin messages

Pin messages in your Discuss conversations to quickly access important and old messages. A section with pinned messages is available from the header of your conversations and channels. You can jump to specific pinned messages from there.

Link previews

Link previews are displayed when a message is posted.

Download images button

Added a download button when hovering image attachment in Discuss or on the chatter.

Options menu from username

All Discuss-related options are available when clicking a username in the chat window header. In addition, open an employee's profile or edit their username in the menu.

Activities

Keep the custom summary when changing the activity type. Display activity summaries and fallback to the activity type if no summary is set. Activities can be accessed via the widget—-display, which is assigned (if it isn't the current user). Icons show activity type.

Video

Voice & video

Voice and video calls are available. Users can change displays and share their screens with members.

Video background blur

Blur your background during video calls.

Video calls UI

Impressive user interface for video calls, with a dedicated side panel for settings.

Meeting

Users can start a meeting and invite external guests to the video call within the Discuss app.

Raise hand option from Discuss meeting

Meeting participants can raise their hands to signal that they wish to speak and notify other participants.

Show guests

Guests are shown in member lists.

Integration

Every application

Full Odoo app integration.

Modules chatter

Include messages and internal notes, add followers and channels straight from any of the apps, and keep track of them in the Discuss module.

Email addresses in chatter

Display recipients' email addresses when sending a message from the chatter.

Usability

International communication

Chat / Conference / Call from any device and anywhere in the world.

Widget

Discuss widgets accessible from any Odoo window.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp integration, with access to messaging the same as direct messaging.

Intuitive user interface

Improved the sidebar UI to make channels, chats, etc., much easier to find. Get user avatars in the DM/Group DM section in the sidebar.

Conversations dropdown readability

Improved the conversations dropdown menu (inbox) readability.