Forms • Components Synchronizer

Forms • Components Synchronizer closes that gap by treating the form.io schema as data you own. We build a pair of models — a parent forms.form and a child forms.component (technical names finalized in scoping) — with a synchronizer that walks the schema tree (nested containers, panels, columns, edit-grids, data-grids) and upserts one record per component. Each component row carries its key, type, label, path, validation flags (required, unique, regex), conditional-display logic, and a stable external key so re-syncs are idempotent rather than duplicating. The sync runs on write of the source form (via @api.depends-style triggers or an ir.actions.server hook), on demand from a button, and optionally on a scheduled ir.cron. Because everything is real ORM, you immediately get search/read_group over components, ir.model.access.csv + record rules for who may see which forms, list/form/pivot views over the component catalog, QWeb reports, and full read access over the XML-RPC/JSON-RPC API for downstream systems.

Technically, the connector is defensive by design. Schema traversal is recursive and type-aware, so container-type components are expanded and their children linked back to the parent path — no flattening that loses hierarchy. Re-synchronization diffs against existing rows keyed by (form, component_key): unchanged rows are skipped, changed rows are updated, and removed components are archived (not hard-deleted) so historical records and their references survive. We wrap parsing in guarded error handling that logs malformed nodes to ir.logging instead of aborting the whole sync, and we keep the write path in a single transaction so a partial failure rolls back cleanly. Where you already store form.io JSON on an existing model, we point the synchronizer at that field; where you pull from a form.io API, we add a thin, credential-safe client. The module ships Community-compatible (no Enterprise-only dependencies) unless your scope specifically requires Enterprise widgets, in which case we flag that up front.

Because this is build-to-order, nothing is a shrink-wrapped download. After a short scoping call we confirm your form.io source of truth, the component attributes you actually need as columns, the security model, and any downstream sync targets — then we build against your Odoo version, deliver on staging for UAT, and cut over to production with a rollback plan. Typical delivery is 2-4 weeks from confirmed scope. Pricing starts from $299 (indicative, single-company base scope); multi-company setups, syncing from a live form.io API rather than a stored JSON field, deeper conditional-logic modeling, and historical schema data migration increase the quoted scope. You receive a fixed quote after the scoping call, never a surprise invoice.