Hello Niels, You have a interesting question here, maybe we should create a new thread about it on expert mailing list.
Regards Nicolas 2014-02-18 17:01 GMT+01:00 Niels Huylebroeck <n...@agaplan.eu>: > Would it not be more appropriate to simply allow easier definition of html > rendering functions / modules ? > This way you can have one model (ir.actions.report.xml) (oh, an old name > :-) which could define two fields (instead of the current single type > field): > * rendering engine > converting from source file and applying data model > * output format > 'pdf', 'html', 'xls', '...' > > Any number of module can add either a rendering function or an output > format perhaps it's also convenient to convene on an single fixed > intermediate model (such as html would be fine for now I presume). > Otherwise one would have to define which output formats can be used on > which sort of output from the rendering engine. > > Right now we have these reporting solutions: > * rml > * xml/xsl > * webkit (v7 is mako->html->pdf, trunk is jinja2->html->pdf) > * aeroo (odt -> odt (with data) -> xls/doc/odt/pdf) > > You can see each of them have a source file (covered in > ir.actions.report.xml by report_file) > Not all of them have the same intermediate file (aeroo can however have > html as final out afaik) > We should be able to do something smarter with the current landscape than > just throwing out working modules especially since every reporting engine > so far each has it's own set of missing features. > > Regards, > Niels > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community > Post to : openerp-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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