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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

By : Daniel Reis
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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

Installing wkhtmltopdf


To correctly generate reports, the recommended version of the wkhtmltopdf utility needs to be installed. It's 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 9.0, the officially recommended version to use has been 0.12.1, and this is still true for Odoo 11.0. Version 0.12.2 is known to have some issues, and later versions are also reported to not work correctly in some cases.

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...