Add new filed on Portal(portal module) Website odoo13

Question

I want to add a new field called about_me to the portal module but when I click the confirm button, an "Unknown field" error appears, could there be something missing in the inhertit template method?

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Answer 1

The controller will check if the fields present in post are also present in MANDATORY_BILLING_FIELDS or in OPTIONAL_BILLING_FIELDS

@route(['/my/account'], type='http', auth='user', website=True)
def account(self, redirect=None, **post):
    ...
    if post and request.httprequest.method == 'POST':
        error, error_message = self.details_form_validate(post)

The part of details_form_validate that will return the error message:

def details_form_validate(self, data):
    ...
    unknown = [k for k in data if k not in self.MANDATORY_BILLING_FIELDS + self.OPTIONAL_BILLING_FIELDS]
    if unknown:
        error['common'] = 'Unknown field'
        error_message.append("Unknown field '%s'" % ','.join(unknown))

    return error, error_message

After that, it will check if there is no error to write values and redirect you to /my/home or the one defined by the redirect parameter.

To avoid this issue just add your field to OPTIONAL_BILLING_FIELDS :

from odoo.addons.portal.controllers.portal import CustomerPortal

CustomerPortal.OPTIONAL_BILLING_FIELDS.append('about_me')