Tickets created from chatbot conversations now show the chat history in a clearer format and include a direct shortcut back to the original discussion. This helps support teams understand customer requests faster and continue the conversation with less manual searching.

*: website_helpdesk_livechat.

This PR aims to improve live chat consultations for tickets created by
a chatbot. Specifically, it enhances the formatting of the ticket
description to make the conversation easier to read, introduces a
smart button to redirect users to the discussion channel where the
ticket originated and set the ticket name according to the user request.

task-4432728

community: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/191813

Recruiters can now post job listings to job boards more smoothly, including jobs that have not yet been published. The update reduces interruptions during posting by requiring key information upfront and makes related recruitment modules easier to understand, while also fixing a missing job post icon in Firefox.

Contract template management is moved into the core employee contract area so templates are available where users expect them. The update also improves related hiring and payroll salary screens, making contract setup more consistent and easier to navigate.

Contract template should already exist in hr_contract and some other UX improvements.

Task: 4320233

The disallowed expenses reporting now supports cases where businesses can deduct more than 100% of an expense, such as Belgium's enhanced deduction for eInvoicing costs. Reports and fleet-related expense settings now show both the disallowed and actually deductible amounts, helping finance teams apply the correct tax treatment.

Our Disallowed Expense module does not allow for deductibility of >100%. We have cases where it's needed, for example in Belgium you are allowed to deduct 120% of your amounts expensed for eInvoicing. For this we need to inverse the percentage to the part that is allowed in the expenses, so that we can take it into account in the report, and add another column showing the amounts that can actually be deduced.

task-id 4421297

Upgrade PR: https://github.com/odoo/upgrade/pull/6971, https://github.com/odoo/upgrade/pull/7807
Documentation PR: https://github.com/odoo/documentation/pull/11634

Appraisal goals can now be linked to more than one employee, making shared objectives easier to track in performance reviews. The appraisal screens and demo data were updated to display these multi-employee goals clearly, including small visual fixes to status ribbons.

- change the field to Many2Many
- edit the view and demo data to match the new type

Task: 4391198

The appraisal survey experience now includes better demo data and an easier way to request 360 Feedback directly from the survey list. This helps users find and launch feedback requests more reliably, while ensuring employee matching works even if email details have changed.

- Add demo data to make 360 Feedback entry to be shown
- fix email field in the demo data to match the context matching
- Add button to ask feedback in the  surveys list view

Task: 4373438

This update improves internal test reliability for Belgian payroll accounting by enabling real-time communication support during automated checks. It helps ensure payroll accounting features are validated more consistently before release, with no direct change for end users.

task-3970199

The Studio app's automated tests have been converted from an older test system to the newer HOOT framework. This improves maintainability and helps ensure Studio features like app creation, navigation, menus, icons, and action editing continue to work reliably.

Conversion of all legacy studio tests to HOOT

The Planning employee avatar card layout has been improved to better present details such as skills and roles. Clearer spacing and content separation make the card easier to read and less visually crowded for users reviewing staff information.

This PR reviews the layout of the avatar card in order to match all the use cases.

- requires https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/188068

The employee avatar card recently received an update aiming to display skills and roles within its content. While this added extra information and value to the component, its layout wasn't really meant to contain that much information, which led to a crowded visual result.

With this PR, we review the hierarchy of the card by adding clear separations to its content and reviewing the use of white space.

| Master | This PR |
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| ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c2a05f86-8174-439c-8d5b-43cea0ccd834) | <img width="402" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6f4f7d6b-6e72-4cf6-b88f-e8e2e977e8b9"> | 

task-3810438

This update removes outdated internal helper code used by Documents tests. It helps keep the Documents app easier to maintain and reduces future technical risk without changing day-to-day user workflows.

part of task-3818666

community: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/196010

The refund action on employee payslips is now shown only after a payslip has been marked as paid. This helps prevent refunds from being started too early and keeps payroll actions aligned with the actual payment status.

- make refund btn visible only when the payslip is in `paid` state instead of `done or paid`

Task: 4452180

Changes to the Employee and Manager fields on appraisal goals are now recorded in the chatter. This improves transparency and makes it easier to review who changed key appraisal ownership details.

Purpose:
- Employees with basic rights can modify the Employee and Manager fields on the Appraisal Goals form. Therefore, it’s better to track these changes in the chatter for better transparency.

This PR includes the following updates:
- Any changes to Employee and Manager fields are now visible in the chatter for better visibility and auditing.

Task - 4488582

Payslip generation emails are now sent only when the Human Resources option is selected in document settings. This helps ensure employees receive payslip emails only when the company has configured HR documents for that workflow.

In this Pr, emails for payslip generation will only be sent to employees
if 'Human Resources' is selected in the document settings

Task-4338046

Payroll users can now see each employee's reference number directly in employee, contract, payslip, attendance, leave, and salary report lists. The label has also been standardized as "Employee Reference," making it easier to identify employees consistently across payroll screens.

- add the `registration_number` field to the employee, contract, and payslip list views
- change the field label to `Employee Reference` to be consistant

Task: 4491186

Payroll work entry type records are now protected from being overwritten during system migrations or upgrades, helping keep configured payroll behavior stable. The payroll setup data was also reorganized into smaller files to make future maintenance safer and clearer.

Work entry type data should not be updatable as it shoud not be erased at each migration/upgrade.

This commits fixes this by changing all work entry type data to noupdate true.
The hr_payroll data file has also been split into multiple files to follow the coding guidelines.

task-4479965

Recruitment reports now include a dedicated list view when users open details from a graph. This helps teams review key record information at a glance without opening each recruitment record one by one.

- add the list view to be able to see some details about the records when click in the graph
without the need to access them record by record

Task: 4517160