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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is fast becoming the reference open source platform for business applications thanks to the fact that it provides the infrastructure needed for developers to deliver software solutions for any business process quickly. Odoo's layered module approach makes it particularly effective for combining and extending features. This updated fifth edition is a tutorial-style introduction to essential Odoo development topics. The book starts by covering the development essentials for building business applications and takes you through Odoo installation and configuration, gradually transitioning from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You'll then learn how to develop your first Odoo application, while covering topics such as models and views. Later chapters will get you up to speed with using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress, you’ll get equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features available in Odoo 12 and beyond, such as in-memory ORM and computed writable fields. Finally, you’ll gain insights into building business logic and using the Odoo API to integrate with various applications. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build business apps from scratch using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development
6
Section 2: Models
9
Section 3: Business Logic
13
Section 4: Views
18
Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb

While a regular view can provide valuable information to users, there will be cases where a printed output is needed. Maybe it is a PDF document to be sent to a customer, or a paper document that is needed to support a physical process. To address these cases, Odoo apps support printed business reports. These are generated using QWeb and then exported to PDF documents, which can then be printed, emailed, or simply stored.

Being QWeb-based means that the same skills that can be used for Kanban views and web pages can be reused to design reports. Beyond QWeb, specific mechanisms are used, such as report actions, paper formats, and the variables that are available for QWeb report rendering.

In this chapter, examples will be used to illustrate how to structure and add content to a report. The usual report structure has a header, details, and footer sections. The content that can be added includes field data, including...