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Odoo 10 Development Essentials

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

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

Enabling language translation in reports


To enable translations for a report, it needs 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. This will frequently be the language of the Partner the document is to be sent to, stored at partner_id.lang field. In our case, we don't have a Partner field, but we can use the responsible user, and the corresponding language preference is in user_id.lang.

The function expects a template name, and will render and translate it. This means that we need to define the page content of our report in a separate template, as shown in the following:

<report id="action_todo_task_report_translated" 
  string="Translated To-do Tasks" 
  model="todo.task" 
  report_type="qweb-pdf" 
  name="todo_report.report_todo_task_translated" 
  paperformat="paperformat_euro_landscape...