You're reading from Odoo 15 Development Essentials Enhance your Odoo development skills to create powerful business applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200067

Length 548 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Odoo

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development

2. Chapter 1: Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application

5. Chapter 4: Extending Modules

6. Section 2: Models

7. Chapter 5: Importing, Exporting, and Module Data

8. Chapter 6: Models – Structuring the Application Data

9. Section 3: Business Logic

10. Chapter 7: Recordsets – Working with Model Data

11. Chapter 8: Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

12. Chapter 9: External API – Integrating with Other Systems

13. Section 4: Views

14. Chapter 10: Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

15. Chapter 11: Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

16. Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb

17. Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features

18. Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

19. Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models

20. Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb

While a regular view can provide valuable information to users, there will be cases where a printed output is needed. Maybe it is a PDF document to be sent to a customer, or a paper document that is needed to support a physical process. To address these cases, Odoo apps support printed business reports. These are generated using QWeb and then exported to PDF documents, which can then be printed, emailed, or simply stored.

Being QWeb-based means that the same skills that can be used for Kanban views and web pages can be reused to design reports. Beyond QWeb, specific mechanisms are used, such as report actions, paper formats, and the variables that are available for QWeb report rendering.

In this chapter, examples will be used to illustrate how to structure and add content to a report. The usual report structure has a header, details, and footer sections. The content that can be added includes field data, including...