Regardless of how great the built-in reports are in any Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, it is inevitable that most companies will need to do some custom modifications to the standard documents and reports that are provided. Of course, Odoo is no exception to this rule. The goal of this chapter is to provide you with a solid introduction to the Odoo reporting framework.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Overview of report modification, QWeb templates and printing to PDFs
- Making simple changes to the headers and footers of your reports
- Basic organization of reports and forms and their various types
- Understanding and modifying structure under the existing Sales order form
- Modifying reports using the Odoo reporting framework and the QWeb template language
Within Odoo, it is possible to make some changes without modifying...