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Odoo 11 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 11 Development Essentials Develop and customize business applications with Odoo 11

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477796
Length 336 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Quick Start – The Odoo Developer Mode and Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing and Organizing the Development Environment 3. Your First Odoo Application – A Practical Overview 4. Models – Structuring the Application Data 5. Import, Export, and Module Data 6. The ORM API – Handling Application Data 7. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 8. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 9. Backend Views – Design the User Interface 10. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 11. Reports and Server-Side QWeb 12. Creating Website Frontend Features 13. Debugging and Automated Tests 14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reports based on custom SQL


The report we built was based on a regular recordset. However, in some cases we need to transform or aggregate data in ways that are not easy or desirable to process in a QWeb template.

One approach for this is to write a SQL query to build the dataset we need, expose those results through a special model, and have our report work based on a recordset.

To showcase this, we will create a reports/todo_task_report.py file with the following code:

from odoo import models, fields 
 
class TodoReport(models.Model):
    _name = 'todo.task.report' 
    _description = 'To-do Report'
    _auto = False

    name = fields.Char('Description') 
    is_done = fields.Boolean('Done?') 
    active = fields.Boolean('Active?') 
    user_id = fields.Many2one('res.users', 'Responsible') 
    date_deadline = fields.Date('Deadline') 

    def init(self):
        self.env.cr.execute("""
           CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW todo_task_report AS
           (SELECT *
           FROM todo_task
...
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