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+# `community_classifieds` — Module Handover
+
+A technical guide for taking this module out of the CommunityOS monorepo
+and installing it in a different Odoo project. For how the module *works*
+day-to-day, see the CommunityOS build plan or `README.rst` inside the
+module itself — this doc is specifically about the move.
+
+## What it is
+
+A member-gated classifieds board: public listing board, a posting form
+for logged-in users, an admin moderation queue (publish/reject), and
+automatic expiry with warning emails. Odoo 19 Community Edition, licensed
+`LGPL-3`.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+**Hard** (declared in `__manifest__.py`, both stock Odoo Community — no
+Enterprise, nothing else from this suite):
+```python
+'depends': ['website', 'portal'],
+```
+
+**Soft — one runtime check, nowhere else**: `controllers/main.py` calls
+`_is_module_installed(env, 'community_membership')` before gating who can
+post. If `community_membership` is present *and* installed, posting
+requires an active membership; if it's absent, that check is simply
+skipped and posting only requires being logged in. This isn't in
+`depends`, so Odoo has no idea the two modules are related — verified by
+grepping the whole module for any other cross-reference to
+`community_membership`, `community_theme_base`, `community_portal`, or
+any other `community_*`/`event_qr_ticketing` module: there are none.
+Every template it calls into (`website.layout`, `portal.portal_layout`)
+comes from its own declared dependencies.
+
+**Net effect**: copy the folder, install it in a project with just
+`website` and `portal`, and it works exactly like it does here, minus
+the optional membership-gating.
+
+## Moving it
+
+1. Copy `addons/community_classifieds/` into the new project's addons
+   path. That's the whole module — no other file in this repo is
+   required by it.
+2. **No client data to strip.** This is a product-layer module in the
+   original repo's own architecture — it's already been through that
+   repo's brand-leak CI check (`scripts/check_brand_leak.py`), which
+   greps every `community_*` module for client names/emails/colours and
+   fails the build if it finds any. There's nothing TNCSC-specific
+   anywhere in it.
+3. **Consider renaming the technical prefix** before distributing it
+   publicly or installing it alongside another copy of the same module —
+   `community_classifieds` could collide with another vendor's module of
+   the same name. If you rename the folder, note that the Python model
+   name (`community.classified`) is hardcoded in `models/community_classified.py`
+   and referenced by XML id throughout `views/`, `security/`, and
+   `data/` — a folder rename alone is enough (Odoo resolves everything
+   by folder/technical name automatically), but a *model* rename would
+   need a project-wide find-replace across every file in the module.
+4. Install normally: `-i community_classifieds` (or via Apps once the
+   addons path is registered).
+
+## Post-install: access & permissions
+
+As of `19.0.1.0.1`, **every Odoo Administrator automatically gets
+moderator access** — nothing to configure. This wasn't always true: a
+standalone install used to leave the installing admin unable to see the
+Classifieds app or Moderation queue at all, because the
+`Classifieds Moderator` group wasn't implied by anything an admin already
+had. Fixed in `security/classifieds_security.xml` by making
+`base.group_system` (Odoo's built-in Administrator group) imply
+`group_classifieds_moderator`:
+```xml
+<record id="base.group_system" model="res.groups">
+    <field name="implied_ids" eval="[(4, ref('group_classifieds_moderator'))]"/>
+</record>
+```
+Verified on a from-scratch database with *only* `community_classifieds`
+installed (`community_membership` and any deployment layer both
+`uninstalled`): `admin.has_group('community_classifieds.group_classifieds_moderator')`
+returns `True` and "Classifieds" appears in the app switcher immediately.
+
+**To give a non-admin staff member moderator access**: Settings → Users
+& Companies → Users → open their record → check **Classifieds Moderator**
+under the Classifieds privilege group.
+
+## Configuration
+
+Settings → General Settings → **Classifieds** tab:
+
+| Setting | Field / param | Default |
+|---|---|---|
+| Listing Duration (days) | `community_classifieds.expiry_days` | 30 |
+
+One thing *not* exposed as a setting: the expiry-warning email fires
+exactly **7 days** before expiry — `DEFAULT_WARNING_DAYS_BEFORE_EXPIRY`
+in `models/community_classified.py`, a hardcoded constant. Change the
+constant if a different lead time is needed; it's not wired to a
+`res.config.settings` field.
+
+## Data model
+
+**`community.classified`** — the listing itself:
+
+| Field | Type | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `title` | Char | required |
+| `category` | Selection | for_sale / housing / services / jobs / other |
+| `description` | Html | |
+| `image_ids` | One2many → `community.classified.image` | max 3, enforced by a `@api.constrains` |
+| `contact_method` / `contact_email` / `contact_phone` | | |
+| `poster_partner_id` | Many2one res.partner | readonly, set by the controller on create |
+| `post_date` | Datetime | readonly, defaults to now |
+| `expiry_date` | Date | readonly, computed on create/publish/renew |
+| `state` | Selection | pending_review / published / expired / rejected |
+| `admin_notes` | Text | |
+| `view_count` | Integer | incremented via `sudo()` on each public detail-page view |
+
+**`community.classified.image`** — `classified_id` (required, cascade
+delete), `sequence`, `image` (Binary, `attachment=True`).
+
+## Public routes
+
+| Route | Auth | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `GET /classifieds` | public | list, `?category=` filter, only `state=published` |
+| `GET /classifieds/<id>` | public | detail page, 404s unless published |
+| `GET`/`POST /classifieds/new` | portal login required | membership check if applicable (see Dependencies) |
+| `GET /classifieds/my` | portal login required | poster's own listings, any state |
+| `GET /classifieds/<id>/renew` | portal login required | only works if the requesting partner is the poster |
+
+Login-required routes use `auth='public'` plus a manual redirect check
+(`_redirect_to_login_if_public`), not `auth='user'` — a documented
+workaround for an Odoo 19 bug where `auth='user'` + `website=True` throws
+a raw 500 instead of redirecting to login in some builds. Worth knowing
+before "simplifying" that pattern back to `auth='user'`.
+
+## Background jobs
+
+Two daily `ir.cron` entries (`data/ir_cron.xml`):
+- **Expire Listings** — flips `published` past `expiry_date` to `expired`.
+- **Send Expiry Warnings** — emails the poster when `expiry_date` is
+  exactly 7 days out.
+
+## Email templates
+
+`data/mail_templates.xml`: one to moderators on every new submission
+(`mail_template_new_submission`), one to the poster on approaching expiry
+(`mail_template_expiry_warning`). Both are looked up via
+`env.ref(..., raise_if_not_found=False)` — if you strip the data file,
+the module still runs, it just silently skips sending.
+
+## Known gaps to fix before shipping this elsewhere
+
+- **`static/description/banner.png` is referenced in the manifest's
+  `images` key but the file doesn't exist.** The App Store / Apps-list
+  listing will show a broken image until a real banner asset is added.
+- **`demo/` is empty** (just a `.gitkeep`) — no demo data ships with the
+  module.
+- Manifest `price`/`currency` are placeholder zero values (`0.00 USD`) —
+  set real pricing before listing it for sale.
+
+## Tests
+
+`tests/test_classifieds.py` covers: new listing starts pending review,
+publish makes it visible, reject, the expiry cron, renew resets expiry,
+the 3-image max constraint, and the configurable expiry-days setting.
+Run with `--test-enable --test-tags /community_classifieds` on install.