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[Viktor Nagy <viktor.nagy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

After some heavy code reading, I think I've found a solution.

check out https://bitbucket.org/nagyv/openerp-custom-views
this solution is 100% pure OpenERP that adds extra methods to OpenERP models

another solution is used by the edi addon, it defines a new service
endpoint provided the server

all in all, it's indeed possible to implement 100% custom views in OpenERP
6.1 !

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Viktor Nagy <viktor.nagy@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> hi,
>
> we are moving a 5.0.7 OpenERP installation to 6.1
>
> we have some web-client based reports (not pdf) of the following form
>
> Product   | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | ... | Week 12
> product 1|  100      |   100     |  100     |  ...| 100
> product 2|  100      |   100     |  100     |  ...| 100
> product 3|  100      |   100     |  100     |  ...| 100
>
> that is we have a variable number of columns
>
> as a result, our view data were always generated on the fly, and it was a
> pain in the ass to have such a view in 5.0.7
>
> given the extensibility of 6.1 I was wondering how to implement the above
> feature
>
> My best idea would be to write a server API endpoint that would return the
> following data structure
>
> [{
>  product: 'product1,
>  week: 1,
>  keyX: valueX,
>   ...
>  value: 100,
> },...]
>
> and would digest this on the client side using a web addon
>
> Is this the way to go? After checking the web addons, I have an idea how
> to do the web client side of the development, but I don't really know how
> to do the server-side of it.
>
>  Am I still restricted to <form>, <tree>, <graph> view architectures, or
> adding my own <foo> main tag works if there is a correspoding web addon
> (registered with openerp.web.views.add)?
> What would be the way to define the server end-point to return the above
> data structure? Shall I define a custom method on whatever model object I
> have?
> Are there any example of this kind?
>
> thanks for your support and ideas,
> Viktor
>