Learning how Odoo organizes reports

Unfortunately, the ability to edit the header and footer of the company information does not get you very far. If you spend time with Odoo, it is inevitable the time will come when you need to make changes to specific Odoo documents. For example, a company may need to customize their quotation or sales order to make it more visually attractive to their customers. Perhaps a company would like to change the appearance of their invoice, or the picking ticket they use to pull products from inventory.

However, before you can begin going in and start modifying reports or adding new reports, it is important that you have an overall understanding of how reports are organized within Odoo. First make sure you have activated developer mode, as you have learned how to do in the previous chapter.

With developer mode active, you can get access to the reports within Odoo by going to the Settings menu, then in the Technical section further down in the menu you will find...