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

Installing wkhtmltopdf

Odoo reports are just HTML pages that are then converted into PDF files. For this conversion, the wkhtmltopdf command-line tool is used. Its name stands for Webkit HTML to PDF.

For reports to be generated correctly, the recommended version of the wkhtmltopdf utility needs to be installed. Some versions of the wkhtmltopdf library are known to have issues, such as not printing page headers and footers, so we need to be picky about the version we use.

Since Odoo 10, version 0.12.5 is the officially recommended one. The most up-to-date Odoo information about wkhtmltopdf can be found at https://github.com/odoo/odoo/wiki/Wkhtmltopdf.

The packaged version provided by Debian or Ubuntu may not be appropriate. So, the recommendation is to directly download and install the correct package. The download links can be found at https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/tag/0.12.5.

To install the correct version of wkhtmltopdf, follow these steps:

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