Integrate translation platform into Odoo 18 as a portal OWL frontend

[Copilot]

Replaces the standalone Vite/TypeScript web app (translation-platform-web) with an OWL frontend component served via the Odoo portal, eliminating the separate domain, JWT auth, and XML-RPC layer. Translator users remain external/portal users and access the translation UI at /my/translation-platform.

Frontend (sbc_translation/static/src/)

• rpc.esm.js: lightweight JSON-RPC helper that calls /web/dataset/call_kw with the session cookie, replacing useService("orm") across all DAOs and components.
• notification.esm.js: Bootstrap alert helper replacing useService("notification").
• DAOs (models/): letter_dao.esm.js, translator_dao.esm.js, settings_dao.esm.js — rewritten to use rpc.esm.js against the existing Python API methods. Record-level calls use the [[id], ...args] call_kw convention.
• Components (components/): each component is split into a .esm.js class file and a companion .xml template file following Odoo conventions (sbc_translation.ComponentName). Covers: modal, loader, split-pane letter viewer (PDF + editor), content editor (paragraph-by-paragraph translation with auto-save), signal-problem, child-modal, skill/language picker.
• Pages (pages/): same two-file structure for home dashboard (skill cards + letter links), letters list (sortable/filterable/paginated), letter-edit (core translation UI, Ctrl+S + 30s auto-save), translators admin.
• Root (translation_platform.esm.js + translation_platform.xml): mounts the OWL app via whenReady() on #tp-app-root; state-based navigation replaces the standalone History API router.

// Mounted on the portal page container
whenReady(async () => {
  const target = document.getElementById("tp-app-root");
  if (!target) return;
  await mount(TranslationPlatform, target, { env: {} });
});

All XML template files are registered in web.assets_frontend before their companion JS files so the Odoo web framework loads them into OWL automatically.

Portal / Odoo integration

• templates/portal_templates.xml: inherits portal.portal_my_home to add a "Translation Platform" link; defines the full-screen portal_translation_platform template with a #tp-app-root mount container.
• controllers/main.py: new /my/translation-platform portal route (auth=user, group_user check); legacy /translation-platform/* routes 301-redirect to /my/translation-platform.
• __manifest__.py: adds portal dependency; enumerates all new static assets (XML templates first, then JS) under web.assets_frontend; removes data/website.xml.
• security/ir_groups.xml: restores share = True for group_user — translators remain portal/external users; removes implied base.group_user (internal user).
• security/access_rules.xml: translator_admin_rule now scoped to group_manager only, preventing regular translators from reading all translator records.
• models/translation_user.py: create() assigns group_user and sets translator_id; no backend action_id override.
• models/correspondence.py: translation_url and get_letter_info no longer reference the translation_website record; use web.base.url directly.

i18n

65 UI strings (labels, buttons, child-protection policy text, notification messages) from the original translation-platform-web project's fr_CH.json and de_DE.json files have been ported into i18n/fr_CH.po and i18n/de.po.

Migration

migrations/18.0.1.1.0/post_migrate.py clears any previously set action_id overrides and ensures all existing active translators have group_user membership.

[ecino]

@copilot This works great now as a backend OWL component in full screen. However I noticed it would be a bad practice because I would need to allow all translation users to become internal users for them to have access to the translation platform. Instead, they should remain external otherwise we would have security concerns and we would need to restrict a lot their permissions which is not ideal. So now I want you to convert those backend components into OWL frontend components. You should inherit the portal frontend view to include a link to the translation platform. The translation platform route and page should display the owl component in full screen and it should be the same as the current backend platform. I won't need the backend action anymore.

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@copilot This works great now as a backend OWL component in full screen. However I noticed it would be a bad practice because I would need to allow all translation users to become internal users for t...

Done in commit 28e1028. Here's what changed:

Translators remain external/portal users — group_user restored to share = True, no base.group_user implied group. The translator_admin_rule is now scoped to group_manager only, so regular translators can't access other translator records.

New portal route: /my/translation-platform (auth=user, checks sbc_translation.group_user). Legacy /translation-platform/* routes redirect there with 301.

Portal home link: inherits portal.portal_my_home to add a Translation Platform entry at /my.

OWL on the frontend: All assets moved to web.assets_frontend. The useService("orm") calls are replaced by a new rpc.js helper that hits /web/dataset/call_kw directly with the session cookie. The useService("notification") calls are replaced by a lightweight Bootstrap alert helper (notification.js). The app mounts via whenReady(() => mount(TranslationPlatform, document.getElementById("tp-app-root"), { env: {} })) on the full-screen #tp-app-root div rendered by the portal template.

The backend ir.actions.client action and its menu item are no longer loaded.

[ecino]

@copilot Great module but the xml used in the OWL components is integrated in the JS code which is not ideal for translations and code maintainability. Please move out all templates in dedicated xml files as suggested by Odoo documentation:

"We define here the template in the javascript code, with the help of the xml helper. However, it is only useful to get started. In practice, templates in Odoo should be defined in an xml file, so they can be translated. In that case, the component should only define the template name.

In practice, most components should define 2 or 3 files, located at the same place: a javascript file (my_component.js), a template file (my_component.xml) and optionally a scss (or css) file (my_component.scss). These files should then be added to some assets bundle. The web framework will take care of loading the javascript/css files, and loading the templates into Owl.

Here is how the component above should be defined:

import { Component, useState } from "@odoo/owl";

class MyComponent extends Component {
static template = 'myaddon.MyComponent';

...

}
And the template is now located in the corresponding xml file:

Note

Template names should follow the convention addon_name.ComponentName."

Can you also import back all translations that were defined in the initial project https://github.com/CompassionCH/translation-platform-web/tree/main/src/i18n ? It should be correctly placed in the po files of the sbc_translation module.

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@copilot Great module but the xml used in the OWL components is integrated in the JS code which is not ideal for translations and code maintainability. Please move out all templates in dedicated xml f...

Done in commit d3d65f8. Here's what was implemented:

Template extraction: Created 13 dedicated XML template files (one per component/page file), following the Odoo convention sbc_translation.ComponentName. Each .esm.js file now declares static template = 'sbc_translation.ComponentName' instead of an inline xml\...`literal. The XML files are registered inweb.assets_frontend` before their companion JS files.

i18n translations: Fetched the fr_CH.json and de_DE.json files from the original translation-platform-web project and ported 65 matching UI strings into i18n/fr_CH.po and i18n/de.po. These cover labels, buttons, tooltips, child protection text, and notification messages visible in the templates and JS notification calls.

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