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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the fastest growing open source, business application development software products available. With announcement of Odoo 10, there are many new features added to Odoo and the face of business applications developed with Odoo has changed. This book will not only teach you how to build and customize business applications with Odoo, but it also covers all the new features that Odoo has to offer. This book is the latest resource on developing and customizing Odoo 10 applications. It comes packed with much more and refined content than its predecessor. It will start with building business applications from scratch and will cover topics such as module extensions, inheritance, working with data, user interfaces, and so on. The book also covers the latest features of Odoo 10, in addition to front end development, testing and debugging techniques. The book will also talk about Odoo Community and Odoo Enterprise.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Odoo 10 Development Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating business reports


Usually we would implement the report in our To Do app addon module. But for learning purposes, we will create a new addon module just for our report.

Our report will look like this:

We will name this new addon module todo_report. The first thing to do is to create an empty __init__.py file and the __manifest__.py manifest file:

{  
  'name': 'To-Do Report', 
  'description': 'Report for To-Do tasks.', 
  'author': 'Daniel Reis', 
  'depends': ['todo_kanban'], 
  'data': ['reports/todo_report.xml'] } 

The reports/todo_report.xml file can start by declaring the new report as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<odoo> 
  <report id="action_todo_task_report" 
    string="To-do Tasks" 
    model="todo.task" 
    report_type="qweb-pdf" 
    name="todo_report.report_todo_task_template" 
  /> 
</odoo> 

The <report> tag is a shortcut to write data to the ir.actions.report...