Keep sensitive chatter internal by design

Notify Internal Users Only restricts every @-mention suggestion — in the composer and even when an external contact is already a follower — to your internal team, so confidential discussions never leak outside the company with a single keystroke.

The problem

When someone types @ in Odoo chatter, the suggestion list pulls from every partner linked to the record — vendors, customers, portal users, even external followers. One wrong click on a sensitive deal, staffing change, or internal decision can notify an outsider instantly, and native Odoo has no setting to stop it.

The solution

Notify Internal Users Only filters both mention paths at once — the server-side suggestion API and the client-side follower list — so only genuine internal users ever appear, even when an external contact is already following the record. Nothing to configure: it is enforced the moment the module is installed.

Capabilities

Everything you need to keep mentions internal

Every capability below is implemented in the module.

01

Internal-only mention filtering

Restricts @-mention suggestions server-side across every chatter suggestion endpoint — direct mentions, channel mentions, and task mentions — to internal users only.

02

Follower-aware protection

A client-side patch excludes external followers already loaded in the browser, closing the one leak that server-side filtering alone cannot reach.

03

Zero-configuration activation

Enforced automatically on install — there is no toggle to find, forget, or accidentally leave off.

04

Universal chatter coverage

Applies everywhere chatter appears — messages and log notes on every model — not just a single document type.

05

Enforcement Overview dashboard

A single admin screen confirming filtering is active, with live counts of mentionable users and excluded contacts.

06

Mentionable-users review list

Browse and search exactly which internal users are eligible to be mentioned, right from the dashboard.

07

Excluded-category visibility

See at a glance how many external contacts — vendors, customers, portal users — are being kept out of mentions.

08

Community and Enterprise

Works on both editions with no edition-specific setup or extra licensing requirement.

09

Built for current Odoo releases

Targets Odoo 19, with 18 compatibility, so you can adopt it on the version you run today.

Workflow

How it works

1

Install the app

Add Notify Internal Users Only from Apps. Filtering activates immediately, with nothing to configure.

2

Type @ in chatter

Start typing a mention on any record's message or log note as usual.

3

See internal users only

The suggestion list shows genuine employees only, even if external contacts already follow the record.

4

Confirm enforcement anytime

Open the Enforcement Overview dashboard to see the active status, mentionable users, and excluded contact count.

Questions

Frequently asked

No sales fog. If your question isn't here, email us and we'll answer it the same way.

No. The client-side filter checks each suggestion against the internal-user flag in real time, so external followers stay excluded from mention suggestions even when they are already following the document.

Get the app

Buy it on the Odoo App Store

Purchase, download and install directly from the official Odoo Apps Store — you'll always get the latest supported build.

Notify Internal Users Only

Restrict chatter @-mention suggestions to internal users only, even when an external contact already follows the record — with an enforcement overview and zero configuration.

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