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Daniel Reis
Daniel Reis
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Daniel Reis

Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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Designing report content

The report content is written in HTML and makes use of Bootstrap 4 to help design the report's layout. Bootstrap is widely used in web development.

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A complete reference can be found at http://getbootstrap.com.

Unlike Kanban views, the report QWeb templates are rendered on the server side and use the Python QWeb implementation. So, there are some differences to be aware of, compared to the JavaScript QWeb implementation. QWeb expressions are evaluated using Python syntax, not JavaScript.

Understanding the report rendering context

The server-side context where expressions are evaluated is also different from the client-side context that's used for Kanban views. On a report template, the following variables are available:

  • docs is an iterable collection with the records to render the report for.
  • doc_ids is a list of the IDs of the records to render the report for.
  • doc_model identifies the model of the records; for example...
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Daniel Reis

Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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