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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo continues to gain worldwide momentum as the best platform for open source ERP installations. Now, with Odoo 11, you have access to an improved GUI, performance optimization, integrated in-app purchase features, and a fast-growing community to help transform and modernize your business. With this practical guide, you will cover all the new features that Odoo 11 has to offer to build and customize business applications, focusing on the publicly available community edition. We begin with setting up a development environment, and as you make your way through the chapters, you will learn to build feature-rich business applications. With the aim of jump-starting your Odoo proficiency level, from no specific knowledge to application development readiness, you will develop your first Odoo application. We then move on to topics such as models and views, and understand how to use server APIs to add business logic, helping to lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. The book concludes with Odoo interactions and how to use the Odoo API from other programs, all of which will enable you to efficiently integrate applications with other external systems.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Enabling language translation in reports


To enable translations for a report, they need to be called from a template, using a <t t-call> element with a t-lang attribute.

The t-lang attribute should evaluate to a language code, such as es or en_US. It needs the name of the field where the language to use can be found.

One way to do this is by using the current user's language. For this, we define an outer translation report that calls a report to translate, setting the source for the language in the t-lang attribute:

<report id="action_todo_task_report_translated"
        string="Translated To-do Tasks" 
        model="todo.task" 
        report_type="qweb-pdf" 
        name="todo_stage.report_todo_task_translated" 
        paperformat="paperformat_euro_landscape" 
/>
 
<template id="report_todo_task_translated"> 
  <t t-call="todo_stage.report_todo_task_template" 
     t-lang="user.lang" /> 
</template> 

In some cases, we may need each record to be rendered in a...