QWeb reports

Report actions, templates, layouts, t-directives, formatting, paper formats and inheriting standard reports.

In this lesson

Report actions and layouts
QWeb directives
Inheriting standard reports

Key points

ir.actions.report: report_type, report_name, binding_model_id, paperformat_id
web.html_container + web.external_layout; loop docs
t-foreach/t-as, t-if, t-set, t-out, t-field with t-options, t-call, t-att
Inherit templates with XPath; test page breaks, currency, language

Real-world example

A client's 13 Excel invoice designs became four inherited templates plus document layouts per company. One QWeb template with t-if on the company and a shared totals block meant a single change updated all of them.

Questions and answers

Which field sets the PDF's file name?

print_report_name.

What replaced t-esc in recent versions?

t-out.

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