On wide form views the Chatter panel — the mail.thread message log, activities, and follower widget — permanently occupies the right column, squeezing the fields users actually work in. On a sales order, manufacturing order, or project task with many columns, that fixed right-hand strip pushes real data off-screen and forces horizontal scrolling. Odoo core gives you exactly one layout: the Chatter is docked right (or below on narrow screens) at a width you cannot change, cannot collapse, and cannot move. Power users doing heavy data entry want it out of the way; account managers living in the message thread want it wide and prominent. Native Odoo has no per-user control for any of this, and no setting survives a page reload.

We build a module that makes the Chatter a first-class, user-configurable panel. It ships an OWL client-side extension of the standard FormRenderer/Chatter component that adds a drag handle to resize the panel width (with sensible min/max clamps), a one-click collapse/expand toggle, and a position switcher to dock the Chatter right, bottom, or as a slide-over — without touching the underlying mail.thread data model, so message posting, activity scheduling, and follower logic stay exactly as Odoo intends. Preferences are stored per user (via res.users settings or a small companion model with ir.model.access.csv limiting each user to their own row), so the layout a person chooses follows them across sessions, browsers, and devices. Because the work is purely presentational and reads/writes only the acting user's own preference record, there is no impact on record rules, reporting, or the XML-RPC/JSON-RPC API surface.

Technically the module is a thin, upgrade-safe layer: a proper __manifest__.py declaring the web and mail dependencies, OWL components and SCSS registered through the assets bundle, and QWeb template inheritance rather than brittle DOM overrides so it survives Odoo point releases. Defaults (starting width, default position, whether collapse is remembered) are exposed as configuration so an administrator can set a sane baseline while still letting each user override it. We test against Odoo 17.0, 18.0, and 19.0 and confirm behavior on both Community and Enterprise — the Chatter widget differs subtly between editions and versions, and we pin the integration to whichever you actually run.

Delivery is build-to-order: you request a quotation, we run a short scoping call to confirm your Odoo version, edition, hosting (Odoo.sh, on-prem, or our managed hosting), and which models and personas need the behavior, then we build, test on a staging copy, and hand over installable source plus documentation. Typical delivery is one working week from confirmed scope. Pricing starts from $999 (indicative, single-company base scope); wider rollouts — multi-company preference isolation, custom position modes, per-model default layouts, or integration with an existing UX-customization module — increase the quoted scope. The scoping call produces a fixed quote before any build work begins.