QWeb-based PDF reports

When communicating with the outside world, it is often necessary to produce a PDF document from a record in the database. Odoo uses the same templating language as the one used for form views, QWeb.

In this recipe, we will create a QWeb report to print the book currently borrowed by a member of our library example. This recipe will reuse the models presented in the Email templates recipe from this chapter.

Getting ready

In case you haven't done it till now, install wkhtmltopdf as described in Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment, otherwise you won't get shiny PDFs as a result of your efforts.

Also, double-check that the configuration parameter—web.base.url (or alternatively...