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Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is one of the best platforms for open source ERP and CRM. Its latest version, Odoo 12, brings with it new features and updates in Python packages to develop more customizable applications with additional cloud capabilities. The book begins by covering the development essentials for building business applications. You will start your journey by learning how to install and configure Odoo, and then transition from having no specific knowledge of Odoo to being ready for application development. You will develop your first Odoo application and understand topics such as models and views. Odoo 12 Development Essentials will also guide you in using server APIs to add business logic, helping you lay a solid foundation for advanced topics. As you progress through the chapters, you will be equipped to build and customize your applications and explore the new features in Odoo 12, such as cloud integration, to scale your business applications. You will get insights into building business logic and integrating various APIs into your application. By the end of the book, you will be able to build a business application from scratch by using the latest version of Odoo.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installing wkhtmltopdf


To correctly generate reports, the recommended version of the wkhtmltopdf utility needs to be installed. Its name stands for Webkit HTML to PDF. Odoo uses it to convert a rendered HTML page into a PDF document.

Some versions of the wkhtmltopdf library are known to have issues, such as not printing page headers and footers, so we need to be picky about the version to use. Since Odoo 10, version 0.12.5 is officially supported and is the officially recommended one.

Note

The official Odoo project keeps a wiki page with information and recommendations about wkthtmltopdf usage. It can be found at https://github.com/odoo/odoo/wiki/Wkhtmltopdf.

Unfortunately, the odds are that the packaged version provided for your host system, Debian/Ubuntu or any other, is not adequate. So, we should download and install the package recommended for our OS and CPU architecture. The download links can be found at https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases.

We should first make sure that...