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

Hello Fabien,

Thanks for that answer, I do now understand more the purpose ! That is
really welcome, and if the right management check is made before save
event, that would perfectly fit everybody's need !

Great devs in any case, thanks !

Regards,


Joël




On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Fabien Pinckaers <fp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Joel,
>
>  * 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...
>>
>
> The goal of this branch is certainly not to have salesman to edit reports
> in OpenERP. It's an alternative to RML, Office Report Designer, Jasper
> Report, Webkit reports, ... It's more for partners to quickly create or
> customize reports like sales order, invoices, delivery orders, ... They can
> use the edit inline feature, but they will certainly use the HTML Editor
> feature from the Customize menu.
>
> Having said that, the system is so simple and powerful that it actually
> works for salesman to edit reports too:
>    - it follows access rights: the salesman will not be able to change the
> design of a report, only products related fields (it can be improved in a
> way so that zone are not even accessible, currently the check is at the
> save only)
>    - it shows a yellow border when you edit a record, no yellow border
> when you edit the design of the sale order
>
>
>
>
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>
>>
>> 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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>>
>>
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