Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Creating business reports

We will continue using the library_app module, which has been used in previous chapters, and add to it the files implementing the reports.

The report we are going to create will look like this:

The report files should be placed inside a /reports module subdirectory. We will start by adding a reports/library_book_report.xml data file. As usual, when adding data files, remember to add it to the data key in the __manifest__.py file.

The reports/library_book_report.xml file starts off by declaring the new report as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <odoo> <report id="action_library_book_report"  string="Library Books"  ...