Odoo (Whatsapp API)

Installation

The project is build on Symfony 6 and the PHP version of the language being used is PHP 8.1. Install symfony on your local machine

• Run the following command in order to set up the project

# Install dependencies
composer update
# or
composer install

# Migrate 
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate

# Run Server
symfony server:start -d

# Add and set value in your .env.local for the following environment variables
WHATSAPP_TEMPLATE_NAME=
WHATSAPP_TEMPLATE_LANGUAGE=
WHATSAPP_TEMPLATE_NAMESPACE=
WHATSAPP_TEMPLATE_ODOO_STATUS=

• Using the odoo business to send the whatsapp message

  The business can be saved in the odoo_business table. We need the following field in order to save the

  • Host
  • Database
  • Business Name
  • Api Key

  You can get all these field by creating a business on Odoo and going through their developer's documentation.

• Getting the contacts and sending the message

  • We can get the contact lists and instantly send them the Whatsapp Text message according to out template that we want to use to send the message.
  • You can run this command in order to get the contacts and send them the message if they have not already been sent the message

    php bin/console odoo:send-whatsapp
    

  • Once the contacts have been retrieved, and the message has been sent, we can see the list of contacts in the odoo_contact table and list of recipients from those contacts can be seen odoo_sent_contact table.

• Sending the message on status update

  • To test out how the user can get the status update message on WhatsApp, we need to change tags field against a contact in the Odoo Business Dashboard.
  • If this is a new contact registered to our application the status message will not get sent.
  • The status change message is sent to the already saved contact when the status has changed.

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