[?][8.0][mail_tracking] How to track user clicks

[oca]

[?][8.0][mail_tracking] How to track user clicks

[antespi]

This functionality is not implemented. mail_tracking is also a base addon for other ones that integrate event webhooks, for instance, mail_tracking_mailgun.

This could be a good improve to mail_tracking. In order to have a todo list, we have to:

• Create a new table in order to save the relation of link to an unique token.
• Replace all links in email body with the link to a new controller (this new link will include only the database name, the unique token and the tracking_email_id).
• Controller will look up the table (using the unique token) and return a redirect to the real link.
• Also controller will create a click tracking_email_event with all the available metadata associated with the HTTP request (IP, user_agent, timestamp, etc ...)

With this improvement, an Odoo instance that use a simple SMTP service (in localhost, for instance) will have sent, open and click events out-of-the-box.

[ivantodorovich]

Yeah, that will be really good.

I already solved my pressing issue using Google Analytics, but I'll make a PR with this improvements as soon as I have the time. Having all the tracking data in Odoo would be really awesome.

[pedrobaeza]

Don't close this then until it's done. I assign you in the issue.

[pedrobaeza]

In Odoo v9, it must use the existing link tracker from Odoo.

[ivantodorovich]

I'm looking into this.
In order to replace all the original links in the email, I'm thinking of taking advantage of the beautifulsoup library.
Would that be ok, or should I try to do it using regexp?

Nevermind. I think I got it working with just regexp.