Regardless of how great the built-in reports are in any ERP system, it is inevitable that most companies will need to do some custom modifications to the standard documents and reports. Of course, OpenERP is no exception. The goal of this chapter is to provide you with a solid introduction to the OpenERP reporting framework and alternative options for printing more complex reports.
In this chapter we will cover:
Using RML to modify company headers and footers
Using OpenOffice to modify a majority of the documents in OpenERP
Alternative reporting systems that you can integrate with OpenERP
Within OpenERP, it is possible to make some changes without modifying the documents themselves. For example, you can change the headers and footers that appear on all your reports throughout the company. We will begin this chapter by working with the developer tools built in to OpenERP.
In OpenERP Version 7, many of the documents the system creates can be further modified...