Overview

When something important happens — a system outage, a policy change, an urgent notice — there is no reliable way to reach every Odoo user at once. Emails get missed, chat messages get buried, and not everyone reads the chatter. By the time the news spreads, someone has already acted on stale information.

Internal Broadcast solves this. Administrators publish a message once — with a title, rich HTML body, color, and optional schedule — and it appears for every internal user automatically: as a colored bar below the navbar, as a dialog on startup, or both. No configuration needed per user. No additional integrations required.

Startup popup

Messages set to Popup or Banner & Popup open as a modal dialog when the Odoo webclient loads. If several popup messages are active, they appear one after another — each must be acknowledged before the next one opens.

Once a user clicks Got it, a dismiss record is created for that user and message. The popup will not reappear for them, even after a page reload or a new session. Dismiss records are per-user: every person sees the popup exactly once.

Four color levels

Every message has a color that controls the visual style of the banner or popup:

• Info — blue; general announcements and reminders
• Warning — yellow/orange; things users need to be aware of
• Danger — red; urgent notices that require immediate attention
• Success — green; positive news, resolved incidents, go-aheads

Colors map to Bootstrap contextual classes, so they automatically adapt to the Odoo theme — including dark mode.

Access and permissions

Creating, editing, and deleting broadcast messages requires the Broadcast Manager role, accessible under Settings > Technical > Broadcast Messages. Regular internal users have read-only access — they can see messages but cannot manage them.

Dismiss records are write-protected by a constraint: users can only create dismiss entries for themselves, preventing one user from silencing a popup on behalf of another.