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[Fabien Pinckaers <fp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Please keep in mind that the suggested way to edit a report is to use the
top menu Customer > HTML Editor.
The inline edition works on most use cases but may not be perfect for
complex editing (like adding a <td> for sale order lines).

Thanks,


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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