Portal Sidebar Pro for Odoo 18.0
Collapsible portal sidebar with an auto-built menu, plus a redesigned /my dashboard, account & security pages
Odoo 18.0 | v18.0.1.0.1 | OPL-1
What Is Portal Sidebar Pro?
The standard Odoo customer portal (the /my pages) ships as a flat list of cards with
no persistent navigation. Portal Sidebar Pro turns it into a modern, app-style workspace: a collapsible
left sidebar that is built automatically from the portal documents each user can access,
a redesigned home dashboard with live record counts, and cleaner My Details and Security
pages. It is pure QWeb inheritance with a portal-only dependency â no new models, no core
changes, upgrade-safe.
The sidebar & dashboard at a glance.
Requirements
ð§ Odoo Version
Requires Odoo 18.0 (Community or Enterprise).
ð¦ Dependencies
portal(Odoo standard module)
No other apps required. Sales, Invoicing, Project, etc. are optional â any portal card they expose is picked up automatically.
ð Access Rights
Activates for users in base.group_portal or base.group_user on the
/my pages. No new security groups are introduced.
How It Works
From installation to a fully navigable portal in four steps.
Install & Activate
Go to Apps â search "Portal Sidebar Pro" and click Install. The frontend assets load automatically â there is nothing to configure.
A portal user signs in
On any /my page the sidebar is injected into the portal layout for logged-in portal and internal users. A head-script applies the saved collapsed/expanded state before paint, so there is no flicker on load.
The menu builds itself
The sidebar reads the dashboard cards on /my/home and creates one menu entry per accessible document type â grouped by category (Services, Vendor, Settings) and matched to icons. Live record counts are fetched and shown on the home tiles. The menu is cached in the browser for instant rendering on the next page.
Navigate, collapse, go mobile
Click the toggle to collapse the sidebar to icons (state is remembered), or open it as an overlay drawer on mobile. The active page is highlighted automatically. My Details and Security render in the redesigned card layout.
One-Click Install
Find the module in Apps, click Activate, and you are done â no dependencies to chase and nothing to configure.
Home Dashboard & Sidebar
A greeting banner with live date & time and card-based tiles showing live record counts, beside the auto-built navigation sidebar.
Collapse the sidebar to an icon-only rail to reclaim screen space â every section stays one click away, and the choice is remembered across pages.
Document Lists with Active-Page Highlighting
Every portal document list â orders, invoices, quotations, projects, tasks and more â keeps the sidebar in view with the current section highlighted.
Redesigned "My Details" with Completeness Meter
A card-based /my/account form with a profile-completeness meter â keeping every original field, validation rule and the country â state filter intact.
Cleaner Security Page
The /my/security page â change password, two-factor authentication and session revocation â inherits the same widened card styling.
Key Features
â Auto-Built Sidebar Menu
The menu is generated from the portal cards each user can actually access â no hard-coded links to maintain, and it stays correct as you add or remove portal apps.
â Collapsible & Persistent
Toggle between full and icon-only modes. The state is stored in the browser and survives reloads, with a pre-paint script that prevents layout flicker.
â Mobile Overlay Drawer
On small screens the sidebar becomes a slide-in drawer with a tap-to-close backdrop.
â Live Dashboard Tiles
A greeting banner with live date & time and home tiles that show real record counts at a glance.
â Redesigned My Details
A card-based account form with a profile-completeness meter, preserving every field, validation and the country â state filter.
â No Core Changes
Pure QWeb inheritance and frontend assets, depending only on portal. No new models â
clean, low-conflict and upgrade-safe.
Configuration
âï¸ General Settings
None required. Portal Sidebar Pro works out of the box the moment it is installed â there is no settings screen to fill in. The sidebar activates automatically on every /my page.
ð§ What appears in the sidebar
Menu entries mirror the document cards a user sees on /my/home, which Odoo already gates by access rights. Install or uninstall a portal-enabled app (Sales, Invoicing, Project, Helpdesk, Purchase, â¦) and the sidebar updates itself â no manual menu maintenance.
ð Access Control
The sidebar is rendered only for base.group_portal and base.group_user.
Public (not-logged-in) visitors never see it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need Sales or Invoicing installed?
No. The module depends only on the standard portal module.
Any portal-enabled app you install (Sales, Invoicing, Project, Helpdesk,
Purchaseâ¦) is picked up automatically â the sidebar adds the menu entry
without any configuration.
Does it work on Odoo Community?
Yes. Portal Sidebar Pro works on both Community and Enterprise editions of Odoo 18. It has no Enterprise-only dependencies.
Will it conflict with other portal modules?
The module uses pure QWeb inheritance and adds only frontend assets.
It does not replace any core templates â it extends them. Conflicts are
unlikely unless another module also overrides portal_layout
with incompatible XPath expressions.
Is the sidebar visible to all users?
The sidebar renders only for logged-in portal users
(base.group_portal) and internal users on /my pages.
Public visitors never see it.
What happens when I add a new Odoo app?
The sidebar is built dynamically from the cards visible on
/my/home. Install a new portal-enabled app and the sidebar
entry appears automatically on next page load â no manual configuration.
Changelog
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 18.0.1.0.0 | Jun 2025 | Initial release â collapsible sidebar, live dashboard tiles, redesigned My Details and Security pages, mobile drawer, profile completeness meter. |
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Odoo 18.0 · v18.0.1.0.1 · OPL-1
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