CopyClipboardURL

Some values exist to leave Odoo: meeting links, loyalty share URLs, webhook endpoints, kiosk addresses. For those, a text field that users triple-click and hope they selected fully is the wrong tool. CopyClipboardURL wraps the standard URL display, so the value reads as a clickable link when readonly, and adds a copy button that puts the value on the clipboard with visual confirmation.

It is one of three widgets defined in a single core file: CopyClipboardChar (plain text plus copy), CopyClipboardURL (link plus copy), and CopyClipboardButton (button only, no visible value). All three share the same base component; the URL variant differs by rendering through UrlField and using the fa-link icon on its button.

The names are registered in CamelCase, a rarity in the widget registry, and the registry lookup is exact: widget="CopyClipboardURL" works, any lowercased spelling does not.

The copy button is a small piece of UX with an outsized error-prevention payoff. Every manually selected URL risks losing its last character or picking up a trailing space, and the failure mode is a support ticket that reads "the link you sent does not work". Attendance kiosks, event streaming pages and automation webhooks, the exact places core deploys this widget, are also the places where a broken URL blocks a room full of people.

One behavior to teach admins: the copy always reflects the stored value. The readonly link display will happily prefix a schemeless value so the click navigates somewhere, but the clipboard gets the raw text. If your users paste those values into other systems, enforce fully qualified URLs at the data level rather than trusting the display to clean things up.

Share link with copy button

<field name="share_url"
       widget="CopyClipboardURL"
       readonly="1"/>

The standard pattern: readonly, so the value renders as a clickable link with the copy button beside it.

Relabeling the button

<field name="webhook_url"
       widget="CopyClipboardURL"
       string="Copy endpoint"/>

The string attribute doubles as the copy button's label; the success state still reads Copied.

Editable field with copy

<field name="stream_link" widget="CopyClipboardURL"/>

Not readonly: the value edits like a URL field, and the copy button copies whatever is currently stored on the record.

Three source-level details predict every quirk users report.

The clipboard gets the raw value. The template binds the copy content to record.data[name] directly. The URL display layer may prefix http:// to schemeless values for the link's href; that prefix never reaches the clipboard.

Copying needs a secure context. The button rides the browser Clipboard API, which browsers expose only on HTTPS or localhost. An Odoo served over plain http on the LAN renders the button, and clicking silently fails, an infrastructure problem that presents as a widget bug.

The trio diverged over versions. A fourth sibling, CopyClipboardText, existed through 17.0 and was removed in 18.0. The Char variant's icon changed from fa-clone to fa-clipboard in 19.0 while URL kept fa-link, and 19.0 added the Button variant's btn_class option. If you maintain views migrated from 17 or earlier, the Text name is gone and CamelCase remains mandatory throughout.

Odoo 20 is expected at Odoo Experience in Brussels, 24 to 26 September 2026. The development branch is unstable until release, and we re-verify this page against the shipped version.

Two visible changes so far, both cosmetic but noticeable. The copy buttons restyle from small solid buttons to inline link-style buttons (btn-link btn-link-inline replaces btn-sm). And the icon system migration reaches this file: both the Char and URL variants' icons become the same assignment symbol, so the URL variant loses its distinctive link icon. Registrations, attributes and the copy behavior are unchanged, and the dead disabled knob is dead on master too.