Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-20 Thread Francesco Apruzzese
Il 19/02/2014 23:09, Marc Pierlot ha scritto: open erp is bad [troll] Open Erp is bad! You're right! But OpenERP is cool! [/troll] ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community Post to : openerp-community@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Alan Lord
On 19/02/14 08:08, Parthiv Patel wrote: +1 for Antony's approach, A fully flexible reporting service is something that can act as a based to build other reporting efforts. Proper report pagination was a thing we found we could *only* properly achieve using Aeroo. By that I mean when you are

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Ferdinand Gassauer
On 2014-02-19 12:52, Alan Lord wrote: On 19/02/14 08:08, Parthiv Patel wrote: +1 for Antony's approach, A fully flexible reporting service is something that can act as a based to build other reporting efforts. Proper report pagination was a thing we found we could *only* properly achieve

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Simone Orsi
Yep, a lot of improvements have been made on that side. You can check the log here https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/tag/0.12.0. Speaking of the internal report engine: one should not care about the internal API and machinery as long as is flexible and pluggable. You should be

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Antony Lesuisse
Yes i forgot to mention that the new report module natively support excel reports (or anything else, png, svg, odt...). For an excel report you should define a controller that output the file. For excel 97 you may use xlwt, for excel 2007 and above you could use qweb with the bloated office

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Dave Burkholder
+1,000 On 2/19/2014 6:54 AM, Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero wrote: Hi, Antony, ¡excellent news! Why don't you develop this option directly in the core and give people the possibility to select output format on report definition the same as Aeroo does? About my question of the other mail, do you

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Francesco Apruzzese
and +1000 here!! Il 19/02/2014 13:39, Dave Burkholder ha scritto: +1,000 On 2/19/2014 6:54 AM, Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero wrote: Hi, Antony, ¡excellent news! Why don't you develop this option directly in the core and give people the possibility to select output format on report definition the

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Ovnicraft
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Antony Lesuisse a...@openerp.com wrote: Yes i forgot to mention that the new report module natively support excel reports (or anything else, png, svg, odt...). For an excel report you should define a controller that output the file. For excel 97 you may use

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
Hello Anthony. I'll assume you were kidding about writing qweb based xslx reports. http://pythonhosted.org/openpyxl/ is a nice python library to handle these files. Alexandre On 19/02/2014 12:49, Antony Lesuisse wrote: Yes i forgot to mention that the new report module natively support excel

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Raphael Valyi
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Ferdinand Gassauer off...@chricar.atwrote: On 2014-02-19 04:59, Antony Lesuisse wrote: Thank you for clarifying this. IMO such information should be part of OpenERP Marketing activities towards partners and would avoid mail threads like this one The

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On 19/02/2014 14:29, Antony Lesuisse wrote: Yes and no :) , Fabien Meghazi did it a few years ago, before joining openerp, the qweb template is awful but it works. Maintainability trumps mere feasibility all the time. -- Alexandre Fayolle Chef de Projet Tel : + 33 (0)4 79 26 57 94

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Antony Lesuisse
Xavier Morel is currently working on the technical documentation. The first deliverable will be a getting started with openerp developement tutorial. It will introduce all v8 concepts: controllers, html-views (qweb), models, backend-views (form,list). After he will work on the reference

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Marc Pierlot
Hello, I do not want to receive messages from you anymore. Thak you. 2014-02-19 15:00 GMT+01:00 Antony Lesuisse a...@openerp.com: Xavier Morel is currently working on the technical documentation. The first deliverable will be a getting started with openerp developement tutorial. It will

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Marc Pierlot
open erp is bad 2014-02-19 23:07 GMT+01:00 Peter Langenberg peter.langenb...@bubbles-it.be : This is a mailing list, you have to unsubsribe yourself :-) https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community Peter 2014-02-19 23:05 GMT+01:00 Marc Pierlot mpier...@gmail.com: Hello, I do not want to

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Peter Langenberg
Marc, Did you forget your pills again ? Take one and go to bed. Thanx Peter 2014-02-19 23:09 GMT+01:00 Marc Pierlot mpier...@gmail.com: open erp is bad 2014-02-19 23:07 GMT+01:00 Peter Langenberg peter.langenb...@bubbles-it.be: This is a mailing list, you have to unsubsribe yourself

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Peter Langenberg
This is a mailing list, you have to unsubsribe yourself :-) https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community Peter 2014-02-19 23:05 GMT+01:00 Marc Pierlot mpier...@gmail.com: Hello, I do not want to receive messages from you anymore. Thak you. 2014-02-19 15:00 GMT+01:00 Antony Lesuisse

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-19 Thread Nicola Riolini
another reason for unsubscribe yourself ;) Il 19/02/2014 23:09, Marc Pierlot ha scritto: open erp is bad 2014-02-19 23:07 GMT+01:00 Peter Langenberg peter.langenb...@bubbles-it.be mailto:peter.langenb...@bubbles-it.be: This is a mailing list, you have to unsubsribe yourself :-)

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
Nicolas, I can't see how you can compare wkhtmltopdf and qweb ? Wouldn't it make more sense to compare jinja2 with qweb ? I can see some benefit in using qweb to generate the underlying html since it would allow inheritance for report generation (stacking multiple reports on top of the same base

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Fabien Pinckaers
More info: Starting v8, we will stop supporting the report_webkit module and we will use the QWeb report engine of Simon, that is being merged in trunk in a few hours/days. On 02/18/2014 11:53 AM, Niels Huylebroeck wrote: Nicolas, I can't see how you can compare wkhtmltopdf and qweb ?

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Nicolas Bessi
Hello, Maybe my intentions were not clear enough, actually I was not comparing wkhtmltopdf and Qweb but the module report_webkit with new QWeb repot system. The objective of this thread is to disambiguate the current situation with the two reports system, and inform community that Camptocamp will

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Axel Mendoza Pupo
The solutions to print reports based on HTML DOM combined with specific CSS rules have that drawback that notebook pages does not get displayed properly, is this resolved already? This must complete the solution to render reports based on HTML DOM. If this is resolved already using CSS rules,

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Nicolas Bessi
Hello, No offense Fabien, but such an unilateral announce may not be the proper way to manage this kind of announcement... I'm also a little bit confused about our v6, v6.1, v7, customer that have support contract. How OpenERP SA intend migration as report_webkit is in official addons

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Nicolas Bessi
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

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
Just wanted to add a good read about the refactoring we currently need for ir.actions.report.*: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/07/rule-of-three.html We now have 5 reporting engines and have a decent overview of how they work differently to each other. So now we can refactor the

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Fabien Pinckaers
Hello, We think we have too much report engines: RML, XSL:RML, report_webkit plus all community addons. We have a lot of report engines because none of them were good enough to support everyone's needs. The new QWeb approach is super clean, so we decided to go for it and invest to make it

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Fabien Pinckaers
On 02/18/2014 05:55 PM, Peter Langenberg wrote: Fabien, Can you assure us that the qweb engine will support everyones needs ? I can't assure you such a thing since I don't know your exact needs. But, for sure, it satisfy all our requirements for official reports on all official modules. The

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Peter Langenberg
The advantage of the report_webkit for many of us is that the guys from camptocamp (and others) have written fabulous reports for us it. Our customers (and we) have invested a lot of money and time in a complete suite of reports that we can throw away. It will stop some customers from doing

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Raphael Valyi
Hello Peter, I think many share your analysis. Basically it's a matter of C2C + community peer reviewed quality vs something offshored no very battle tested yet (reminder we discovered the v7 contact woes like 4 months after v7 was released..). That being said, I think the qweb reports for the

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Fabien Pinckaers
Hello, 1/ moving from report_webkit to QWeb does not require you to redevelop everything. The python code remains nearly the same and Jinja/HTML to Webkit/HTML is quite easy to translate. 2/ OpenERP Enterprise covers custom module migration at a price of 800 EURO/1000 lines of code. One should

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Carlos Vásquez
Antony, What about generating spreadsheets or text documents? Have you looked for something like wkhtmltopdf that is capable of generating a xls, doc, ods or odt from an html? Is it in your plans? This could be, I think, the missing feature to ensure the community is on board with this change.

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero
Hi, Antony/Fabien, Do you think it's time now to discuss the features of the new qweb report engine? Do you plan to invest more RD in it? I consider this basic to achieve the ultimate report engine and the only one. Regards. 2014-02-19 6:45 GMT+01:00 Carlos Vásquez

Re: [Openerp-community] report_webkit future

2014-02-18 Thread David Beal
+1 multi format new good practice extended by community David BEAL Akretion OpenERP Development - Integration +33 (0)6 67 22 86 89 +33 (0)4 82 53 84 60 2014-02-19 6:45 GMT+01:00 Carlos Vásquez carlos.vasq...@clearcorp.co.cr: Antony, What about generating spreadsheets or text documents? Have