Dear community, With the approaching release of V8, I'm starting to have questions about the future of the Webkit reports.
*QWeb and Webkit* First of all there seems to be a lot of confusions between QWeb reports and Webkit reports. Qweb reports and Webkit reports are separated reports engines even if they both rely on similar concept. They both allows you to develop at set of report using an HTML based template language. But they have some major differences. AFAIK Qweb reports are view based reports that offer the same flexibility than standards OpenERP views, (inherit, groups, xpath, translation, etc). Webkit reports rely on an external library (wkhtmltopdf) to generate PDF from HTML. HTML are generated using mako/jinga templates. Webkit reports were created to desing complex layout (like ESR payment slip) and render huge report (thousands of pages) without needed a huge machinery. My opinion is that both report engine are complementary at that time. *Future of Webkit reports* I have not heard that report_webkit will be deprecated and there are still in code base. Camptocamp will continue to maintain existing webkit reports (especially financial report) but may port to Qweb report that are a better fit for this technology (PO, SO, etc.) We will also continue to provide enhancement and support to report_webkit for next the release. That said it is not impossible at middle term when we have more feedback on Qweb report to have convergence of both engines. Regards Nicolas
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