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Re: tests/feedbacks for the new reporting

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Hi Simon,

  Thanks for inviting us all to give some feedback on these new features.

  I have some notes to add on what Joël already said:

  * I looks to me that data fields can be distinguished from static text
by a yellow borderline when selected; however there's no way of knowing
what data field is being edited. It would be great to have a tooltip like
the one you have on regular forms with developer mode activated.
  * I couldn't find a way to add additional data fields to the report.
  * When editing the data fields content, I would expect the same
behaviour as fields in regular forms. This is particularly important for
many2one fields, where you excpect to have completion suggestions, or the
option to explicitly create the new related record.
  * The "home" and "end" keys dont work while editing a data field
content. I was also unable to get the cursor after the last character.
  * I noticed the "Demo" user is not able to Edit the report. This means
that a Salesman will not be able to edit the Template, but it also means
he won't have access to the cool ability to edit the Sales order directly
from the report view.
  * It's not a real problem, but I find it "strange" for the report to be
opened on a new window.
  * Why the need the 'qweb-pdf'/'qweb-html technical feature? These could
be two "Print" options - preview (to HTML) and print (to pdf). You could
use regular ACLs to block access yo the first .

  Regards
  Daniel Reis

Quoting Simon Lejeune <sle@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hello Joel, thanks for your feedback. You are very right when you say you don't know if what you are editing is "local" or "global". It is not clear. 
 
All the sale orders (and all the other reports) share the same template. When you edit the html, you edit the template of all your sale orders. There is (for the moment) no notion of a particular sale order with a different template than another one. The only thing varying between the reports are behind the 'magic' syntax t-fields, t-esc, etc. 
 
I'm going to have a look on your issues, thanks for pointing out them.
 
Simon
 
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Joël Grand-Guillaume <joel.grandguillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
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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