Find colleagues first
Active internal users are the normal starting point instead of being mixed into a much larger external contact population.
Free for Odoo 19
Odoo Follower Guard
Make external followers a deliberate choice.
As your Odoo contact database grows, internal colleagues can be buried among customers, suppliers, portal users and other external contacts.
Odoo Follower Guard puts active internal users first and makes external followers a deliberate choice.
It is free for Odoo 19 Community and Enterprise and preserves standard Odoo follower and notification behaviour after selection.
What Improves
Reduce selection risk
External contacts are not suggested by default, helping reduce the chance that the wrong person is added by mistake.
Keep external collaboration available
When an external contact genuinely needs to follow a record, deliberately include external contacts and continue with the normal Odoo workflow.
Preserve standard Odoo behaviour
Follower, subtype, notification and removal behaviour remains standard after a person is selected.
Why We Built It
Our contact database grew. So did the risk of choosing the wrong person.
As customers, suppliers and other external contacts accumulated, finding an internal colleague became progressively harder.
More importantly, it became surprisingly easy to select an external contact when we meant to add a member of staff.
Odoo Follower Guard makes the common internal workflow faster and makes external inclusion an intentional decision rather than an easy mistake.
It reduces selection risk. It does not guarantee confidentiality or replace normal Odoo notification behaviour.
Inside the app
See the workflow.
Genuine Odoo interface captures. Select an image to inspect it at full size.
Colleagues first
The default selection searches active internal users.
External contacts by choice
Explicitly enable external contacts when you need to include them.
How It Works
- Open Add Followers.
- Start with active internal users.
- Include external contacts only when required.
- Continue using normal Odoo follower functionality.
Boundaries
It reduces selection risk rather than guaranteeing confidentiality.
It does not rewrite existing followers.
It does not replace standard Odoo notification behaviour.
Compatibility, Licence and Technical Details
AvailabilityNot available: Odoo OnlineAvailable: Odoo.shAvailable: On Premise
Odoo Apps Dependencies
- Base (base)
- Discuss (mail)
Lines of code52
Technical Name
cxo_mail_follower_controlsLicenseLGPL-3
Websitehttps://cxodoo.au
Technical details
Odoo 19 Community and Enterprise. Supported on Odoo.sh and self-hosted or on-premise Odoo where custom modules can be installed. Odoo Online does not support installation of this third-party module.
It reduces selection risk rather than guaranteeing confidentiality, does not rewrite existing followers and does not replace standard Odoo notification behaviour.
Licence
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL-3).
Included support
This free LGPL-3 module is supplied without a paid support commitment. Product support and feature suggestions can be submitted through the CXOdoo Support workflow.
Make the common choice the safer choice.
Find your colleagues first and include external contacts when you actually need them.