What are Odoo reports?

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What are Odoo reports?

Reports are written in HTML/QWeb, like all regular views in Odoo. You can use the usual QWeb control flow tools. The PDF rendering itself is performed by wkhtmltopdf. If you want to create a report on a certain model, you will need to define this Report and the Report template it will use.

How do I create a QWeb report in Odoo 12?

How to Create a Custom Report in Odoo 12

  1. Initialize New Database. First, you have to create a new database along with load demonstration data.
  2. Create a Wizard. Create a wizard model and wizard view.
  3. Gathering Report Data. Create an abstract model object.
  4. Create a Paper Format.
  5. Make QWeb Report Template.

What is Odoo QWeb?

QWeb is the primary templating engine used by Odoo2. It is an XML templating engine1 and used mostly to generate HTML fragments and pages. Template directives are specified as XML attributes prefixed with t- , for instance t-if for conditionals, with elements and other attributes being rendered directly.

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Are Odoo apps free?

Odoo is an open source program and you never pay for it. The opensource version is not crippled.

How do I create a PDF in Odoo 14?

How to Create a PDF Report in Odoo 14?

  1. Odoo uses Qweb as a templating engine which is used for converting XML to HTML.
  2. Report Actions (ir.actions.report)
  3. name: Name field is mandatory and is used to recognize the report.
  4. model: Model is also a mandatory field and it stores the model name where the data are taken from.

How do you create a PDF report?

How to create PDF files:

  1. Open Acrobat and choose “Tools” > “Create PDF”.
  2. Select the file type you want to create a PDF from: single file, multiple files, scan, or other option.
  3. Click “Create” or “Next” depending on the file type.
  4. Follow the prompts to convert to PDF and save to your desired location.

What is T ESC in Odoo?

When you use t-esc it will literally print out the value from the field you want to print. When you use t-raw in combination with an HTML field for example it will keep the content in HTML. If you would do a t-esc on an HTML field it will print your HTML code without interpreting it to actual code.

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How do you call a Python function from QWeb?

If you want to call a python function from the QWeb report you will need to create a custom parser for the report. In the parser, you will need to add the function as an argument in the render method.

How do I print a report from Wizard?

Print Report Wizard

  1. Screen 1 – Select the sheets to include in the report.
  2. Screen 2 – Select the title dimensions to use in the report, set the order in which they appear in the report, and set workbook print options.
  3. Screen 3 – Select a print destination for the report (printer, Excel file, or PDF file)