Everjust Website Community

EVERJUST Website & Community — Agent Skill

Operate the reputation + gamification + public-profile layer of a live everjust.app tenant as a running agent: award/track karma, grant and publish badges, run challenges and leaderboards, tune karma ranks, and expose or edit members' public profile pages — all through the Odoo MCP / ORM (env["…"], search, read, call an exposed method) plus the MCP website tools for the QWeb pages.

This is stock Odoo 19: gamification (karma, badges, challenges, goals, ranks), website_profile (public /profile/* pages), plus website_forum and rating on this tenant. There is no custom everjust community addon — everjust only rebrands the chrome (everjust_theme / everjust_brand_website) and gates the public site with the everjust.public_website config parameter. So you drive the vanilla models and methods, and you edit the QWeb the vanilla way (COW into a website-specific view).

When to use this skill

• Award or dock reputation — give a member karma for a contribution, or reason about why their karma/rank is what it is (read the tracking ledger).
• Grant or design a badge — hand an existing badge to a user, create a new gamification.badge with grant rules, or publish/unpublish a badge on the public /profile/ranks_badges page.
• Set up or recompute a challenge / leaderboard — define a goal + challenge, start it, or force a recompute so the numbers on the public leaderboard update now.
• Tune karma ranks — add/adjust a gamification.karma.rank threshold so members level up (Newbie → … → Doctor) at the karma values you want.
• Make a member's profile public (or private), list who's public, or edit the /profile/* web pages (ranks & badges page, the members directory, a profile layout).

Do NOT use this skill for, and stop if the task is really:

• The marketing pages (website_connectdomain, website_tcsw) or generic site layout/snippets/menus/redirects — that's page-building, see [[everjust-website]]. This skill only owns the website_profile.* QWeb (ranks/badges/members/profile) and the community data models.
• Forum posts / Q&A moderation as a content workflow — website_forum is installed and its karma hooks feed this layer, but authoring/moderating forum content is its own job. This skill covers the karma/badge/rank side that the forum drives.
• Sending a real email to a member — badge/challenge notifications go through Odoo chatter (message_notify / message_post), NOT the everjust webmail stack. If you need to actually email someone as a tenant mailbox, that's [[everjust-mail-ops]].
• Business-record reputation (CRM lead scoring, ratings on tasks) — rating.rating is a different mechanism; this skill is member/user karma.

You reach the ORM and the website tools through the platform's Odoo MCP — see [[everjust-agent-mcp]] for opening a session against the right tenant DB, and note the platform invariants in [[everjust-platform]]. Website edits need admin / website-designer role on your API-key user; plain karma/badge writes need at least an internal user with the gamification manager group.

Architecture (the model map)

Everything hangs off res.users (the actor whose reputation this is) and its partner_id (which carries the public visibility flag). One tenant DB per customer.

website_profile layers the public pages on top: it makes gamification.badge inherit website.published.mixin (so a badge only shows publicly when website_published=True), adds the profile-editable fields to res.users (website_description, country_id, city, …), and ships the /profile/* controllers + website_profile.* QWeb views.

Karma is a ledger sum — the ONE rule that matters

res.users.karma is a computed, stored field that sums karma_tracking_ids.new_value. You change karma by appending to the ledger, which the framework does for you inside _add_karma(gain, source=None, reason=None) → _add_karma_batch:

_add_karma(gain) → creates a gamification.karma.tracking row
                   {old_value: user.karma, new_value: user.karma + gain,
                    origin_ref, reason} → karma recomputes → rank recomputes (_rank_changed)

Writing res.users.karma = N directly is wrong: there's no ledger entry, the audit trail lies, and on the next recompute the computed field overwrites your value from the ledger. Always _add_karma (positive to reward, negative to dock).

The public visibility gates (two of them, both must pass)

A member's public profile at /profile/user/<id> is reachable only when:

1. partner_id.website_published == True — the per-user gate. res.users.website_published is related to the partner, so publishing the user publishes the partner and vice-versa.
2. the whole public site is on — everjust gates / behind ir.config_parameter('everjust.public_website') == '1'. If that's 0, no public page (profile, ranks, or marketing) renders at all for anonymous visitors.

A badge shows on /profile/ranks_badges only when its own website_published is True. Ranks are always listed there (no per-rank publish flag).

Recipes

Route each through the Odoo MCP (open an env on the tenant DB, then run the call). Use the generic search/get/create/update/call tools for data; use the website tools (website_pages, website_edit_page, website_publish) only for the QWeb pages. Non-read call and structural writes need confirm:true.

Award (or dock) karma — via the ledger, never a raw write

u = env["res.users"].search([("login", "=", "jane@connectdomain.app")], limit=1)
# Reward:
u._add_karma(15, reason="Answered a support question")
# Dock (negative gain is fine):
u._add_karma(-5, reason="Removed spam post")
# Verify — karma is the ledger sum; rank auto-advances:
u.read(["karma", "rank_id", "next_rank_id"])
# Audit trail (why the karma is what it is):
env["gamification.karma.tracking"].search_read(
    [("user_id", "=", u.id)],
    ["old_value", "new_value", "reason", "origin_ref", "tracking_date"],
    order="tracking_date desc", limit=20)

_add_karma runs _rank_changed, so rank_id/next_rank_id update automatically when a threshold is crossed. Do not update the karma field — it will be recomputed away and leaves no tracking row (see Pitfalls).

Grant an existing badge to a user (and notify them)

badge = env["gamification.badge"].search([("name", "=", "Great Question")], limit=1)
u = env["res.users"].search([("login", "=", "jane@connectdomain.app")], limit=1)
# Creating the badge.user row IS the award. create() calls badge.check_granting(),
# which enforces rule_auth / rule_max — so a disallowed grant raises, it isn't silent.
bu = env["gamification.badge.user"].create({
    "badge_id": badge.id,
    "user_id": u.id,
    "sender_id": env.user.id,
    "comment": "For a genuinely useful question",
})
bu._send_badge()   # posts the "🎉 You earned …" chatter notification to the user's partner

_send_badge() operates on the recordset (no args) and notifies via Odoo chatter, not the webmail stack. If check_granting refuses (e.g. rule_auth='having' and the user lacks the prerequisite badge, or rule_max is exhausted), the create raises — read the error rather than retrying.

Create a new badge and publish it on the public ranks & badges page

badge = env["gamification.badge"].create({
    "name": "Founding Member",
    "description": "<p>Joined in the first cohort.</p>",
    "level": "gold",
    "rule_auth": "nobody",          # only admins/challenges grant it; users can't self-award
    # for a peer-grantable badge instead: rule_auth="users", rule_max=True, rule_max_number=2
})
# Publish it so it appears on /profile/ranks_badges (website.published.mixin):
badge.website_published = True      # or: env["gamification.badge"].browse(badge.id).write({"website_published": True})

rule_auth: everyone (any logged-in user may grant), users (only rule_auth_user_ids), having (only holders of rule_auth_badge_ids), nobody (system / challenge only). Publishing does nothing visible until the site gate (everjust.public_website=1) is on.

Add / adjust a karma rank threshold

# List current ladder:
env["gamification.karma.rank"].search_read([], ["name", "karma_min"], order="karma_min")
# Insert a new tier (users auto-fall into it on next karma recompute / _rank_changed):
env["gamification.karma.rank"].create({"name": "Trusted Contributor", "karma_min": 500})
# Retune an existing threshold:
r = env["gamification.karma.rank"].search([("name", "=", "Student")], limit=1)
r.write({"karma_min": 250})

Ranks are evaluated by karma_min against each user's karma. A user's rank_id is the highest rank whose karma_min ≤ karma; next_rank_id is the one above. Changing thresholds re-sorts users on their next karma event; to reflect it immediately, touch each user's karma (_add_karma(0, reason="rank retune")) or run _recompute_rank if you need a bulk sweep.

Stand up a challenge / leaderboard and force it to compute NOW

# Reuse or create the metric (goal definition), then the challenge + line:
defn = env["gamification.goal.definition"].search([("name", "=", "Forum Posts")], limit=1)
ch = env["gamification.challenge"].create({
    "name": "July Contributors",
    "challenge_category": "forum",
    "period": "monthly",
    "visibility_mode": "ranking",              # ranking => public leaderboard, not personal cards
    "user_domain": "[('karma', '>', 0)]",      # who competes (a domain STRING)
    "reward_id": env["gamification.badge"].search([("name","=","Contributor")],limit=1).id or False,
    "line_ids": [(0, 0, {"definition_id": defn.id, "target_goal": 10})],
})
ch.action_start()          # state -> 'inprogress' (draft challenges compute nothing)
# Recompute leaderboard numbers immediately:
ch.action_check()          # unlinks in-progress goals + regenerates + recomputes (bypasses the presence gate)

_update_all() (what the daily cron _cron_update calls) only recomputes goals for users who've been present in the webclient since the last update — a public/API-driven member may never trigger it. For an on-demand, deterministic recompute use action_check() (it deletes in-progress goals then calls _update_all, so numbers reflect current data). A draft challenge is inert; action_start() first.

Publish (or hide) a member's public profile, and list who's public

u = env["res.users"].search([("login", "=", "jane@connectdomain.app")], limit=1)
u.website_published = True          # related field -> flips partner_id.website_published too
print(u.website_url)                # e.g. /profile/user/42  (only live if everjust.public_website=1)
# Who is currently public:
env["res.users"].search_read(
    [("website_published", "=", True), ("share", "=", False)],
    ["name", "login", "karma", "rank_id", "website_url"])
# Confirm the site-wide public gate is actually on:
env["ir.config_parameter"].sudo().get_param("everjust.public_website")   # '1' => public site live

Setting website_published=False (or leaving it False) makes /profile/user/<id> return the website_profile.profile_access_denied page for anonymous visitors. The members directory is /profile/users and the ranks/badges page is /profile/ranks_badges.

Edit a website_profile page (ranks/badges, members directory, profile layout)

# Inspect the public community pages:
website_pages(search="profile")     # find /profile/ranks_badges, /profile/users, …
# The QWeb keys are website_profile.* (e.g. rank_badge_main, users_page_content,
# user_profile_main). Rewrite the FULL arch — the tool COPY-ON-WRITEs into a
# website-specific ir.ui.view so a module upgrade never clobbers your edit:
website_edit_page(url="/profile/ranks_badges", arch="<t t-name=…> …full QWeb… </t>")

These pages are QWeb templates wrapped in website.layout, styled by the everjust theme (monochrome, Space Grotesk/Geist) — NOT s_* builder snippets, so you edit the arch and reuse the theme's classes rather than dropping snippets. Always website_pages first to get the exact current arch before rewriting; website_edit_page replaces the whole template. Only touch the website_profile.* views here; the marketing pages are [[everjust-website]] territory.

Pitfalls

1. NEVER write res.users.karma directly. It's a computed field summing the gamification.karma.tracking ledger. A raw write leaves no audit row, breaks the rank recompute, and is overwritten by the compute on the next karma event. Use user._add_karma(gain, reason=…) — positive to reward, negative to dock. It appends the ledger row and triggers _rank_changed for you.

2. Creating a gamification.badge.user row IS the award, and it enforces rules. create calls badge.check_granting() (rule_auth / rule_max), so a disallowed grant raises — don't assume it silently succeeded. Set sender_id and call _send_badge() afterward to notify. Don't hand-fabricate the notification; _send_badge() posts the correct chatter.

3. _update_all() is presence-gated; use action_check() for a real recompute. The cron path only updates goals for users active in the webclient recently (mail_presence), so API-only / public members can look stale forever. action_check() unlinks in-progress goals and regenerates them from current data — that's your deterministic "recompute the leaderboard now." And a draft challenge computes nothing until action_start().

4. Two independent publish gates for public visibility. Per-user: partner_id.website_published (via the related res.users.website_published). Site-wide: ir.config_parameter('everjust.public_website') == '1'. Publishing a user does nothing for anonymous visitors if the site gate is 0; and toggling the site gate is a platform-level decision (see [[everjust-platform]]), not a per-member action. Badges have their own website_published for /profile/ranks_badges.

5. Badge/challenge/rank notifications are Odoo chatter, not everjust webmail. _send_badge and challenge reports go through message_notify/message_post to the user's partner. Do NOT reach for the everjust.mail.* stack ([[everjust-mail-ops]]) here, and don't expect a row in a mailbox's Sent folder — it's an internal notification.

6. user_domain on a challenge is a domain STRING, not a list. It's stored as a char and ast.literal_eval'd ("[('karma','>',0)]"). A malformed string silently selects nobody. After editing it, run action_check() and confirm user_ids repopulated.

7. Edit only website_profile.* views here, and always read before you write. website_edit_page rewrites the entire template arch and COW-forks it into a website-specific view — fetch the current arch with website_pages first so you don't drop sections. The marketing pages (website_connectdomain, website_tcsw) and generic snippets/menus/redirects are [[everjust-website]], not this skill.

8. Everything is per-tenant; website edits need the right role. One DB per customer; karma, badges, ranks and profiles are all in that tenant's DB. Data writes need the gamification manager group; page edits (website_edit_page) need admin / website-designer on your API-key user. Confirm you're on the correct tenant DB before mutating (see [[everjust-agent-mcp]]).