Hello everyone,
I'm working on the reporting part of OpenERP and i need your help. I'm
now at a development phase where mass testing of this feature can be
(really) appreciable.
Big idea is that the reports are now complete webpages, so they are
customizable using html code. Inside your html code, you can use a
simple 'magic' syntax to display fields of a browse record, etc. I
encourage you to check the sale order report for a speaking sample.
The first thing you'll see when testing the sale order is a pdf result.
How can you modify it ? by displaying the html version of this report.
Two way of doing this:
1) activate the technical feature and go to settings > reportings >
reports > search for sale.order and replace report's type from
'qweb-pdf' to 'qweb-html'.
2) just edit the url from /report/pdf/report/sale.report_saleorder/7 to
/report/sale.report_saleorder/7
I think you now get the idea : qweb-pdf is the printed qweb-html.
To customize the pdf result you can set paperformat records in
settings>technical>reporting>Paper Format and set one by default on your
company and/or explicitely associate a report to a paper format. You can
define dpi, margin-top etc on them.
Known issues:
Header and footer of the resulting pdf: you have to define your header
in a <reportheader> tag and footer in a <reportfooter> one. But the
secund thing to define is the margin of your header ; if you put text or
image too big to be displayed under this margin, then you will have some
hidden text or even a crash of the pdf engine.
Beware that if you use the internal/external layouts that i have set,
there is a data-report-margin-top attribute on the html root tag that is
prioritized over the margin-top set in paperformat. So it is this
margin-top that you must edit!
Notes:
- Branch is named 'trunk-qweb-report' and is available at
http://runbot.openerp.com/.
today's branch is http://trunk-qweb-report-28555-all.runbot.openerp.com/
- 'website' module is mandatory to dislay the reports. So, either you
use 'all addons' when connecting to the branch on runbot or you install
'website' module on base-install.
- It's not possible to directly access the xml code of views (webpages)
from the reporting > reports menu. If you want to edit it, just use the
html view of the page. To access the views: technical > user interface >
views.
I'm sure you all know that the report engine is a tricky part of any
software, so please be patient as it's likely to be buggy at start.
That's also why your help and feedback are appreciated.
Feedbacks can contain:
- traceback (critic issue)
- no traceback but the datas shown are wrong (critic issue)
- ugly reports/ulgy html code
- ideas to simplify this module
- wanted new features or comments
Thanks in advance,
Simon
