Sending periodic digest emails

The Odoo framework has built-in support for sending out periodic digest emails. With digest emails, you can send an email with information about business KPIs. In this recipe, we will send data about rented books to the librarian (or any other authorized person).

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will be using the my_library module from the previous recipe, Logging user changes in a chatter.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to generate digest emails for book rent records:

1. Inherit the digest.digest model and add fields for the KPIs:

   class Digest(models.Model):
       _inherit = 'digest.digest'
       kpi_book_rent = fields.Boolean('Book Rent')
       kpi_book_rent_value = fields.Integer(compute='_compute_kpi_book_rent_value')
       def _compute_kpi_book_rent_value(self):
           for record in self...