I try to create a report on OpenERP. There is several methods to do this task (openoffice plugin, XML files, RML files, etc.)
What’s the quickest way to do that (and/or the most beautiful) ?
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I try to create a report on OpenERP. There is several methods to do this task (openoffice plugin, XML files, RML files, etc.)
What’s the quickest way to do that (and/or the most beautiful) ?
I’ve only used the RML files and I’ve been happy with the result. I haven’t tried the OpenOffice method, but it seems like the conversion step from SXW to RML would be more hassle. When I edit an RML file, I just save it and click on the report button in the client to try it out. No compilation or conversion necessary. OpenOffice might be useful if I wanted to let business users make minor changes to reports, but I suspect that all the weird data extraction code would confuse them.
I haven’t tried the XML report technique, so I can’t comment on it.
I assume you’ve seen the documentation on writing reports. I just noticed a section that talks about changing the corporate default headers, and it only seems to be described for XML reports. I haven’t looked any further, but that might be a reason to use XML instead of RML. I know we would like to get rid of the corporate headers for some internal documents.