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[Joël Grand-Guillaume <joel.grandguillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon,


First of all, thanks for publishing that before it get out, it's very much
appreciated :) I found the possibility to edit a report and that it'll
change the object behind very interesting. The salesman will work on the
report and the information will be saved in the SO => that's smart !

After a first try on my side, some found bugs:

 * Print a SO as html, edit the line description and make it bold. Save and
wait for refresh => it return to normal and should keep the formatting. The
same is valide for all kind of formatting (italic, align :center, ...

 * No possible way to setup bullet point correctly. If I edit a line
description of a SO and chose the bullet point icon, the bullet point
appear everywhere on my SO and not just for the selected part.

 A part from those bugs, I see a quite big issue without really knowing how
to solve it:

 * When I edit a report, I edit both the template and the current SO (e.g.
SO00007). I don't know which of my modifications will appear on all reports
and which will only apply on my current editing SO.

That is a problem. Wee need to know which part we're editing : the template
of all SO, or only this SO ?! In term of right management as well, I want
my salesman to print good SO for my customer, but I don't want them to
change my template layout...

I don't know how, but I strongly suggest :

 * to have various level of editing possibility related to the user's
right: an admin will be able to edit the template where a salesman will
only edit the current SO
 * to have a visual way to identify what belong to the template and what
belong to the current report while editing
 * If it is not possible, better to ensure all the modification are only
for the current report to save headache to people ;)

Keep up the good work !


Regards,

Joël






On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Simon Lejeune <sle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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