Creating business reports

Usually we would implement the report in our To Do app addon module. But for learning purposes, we will create a new addon module just for our report.

Our report will look like this:

We will name this new addon module todo_report. The first thing to do is to create an empty __init__.py file and the __manifest__.py manifest file:

{  
  'name': 'To-Do Report', 
  'description': 'Report for To-Do tasks.', 
  'author': 'Daniel Reis', 
  'depends': ['todo_kanban'], 
  'data': ['reports/todo_report.xml'] } 

The reports/todo_report.xml file can start by declaring the new report as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<odoo> 
  <report id="action_todo_task_report" 
    string="To-do Tasks" 
    model="todo.task" 
    report_type="qweb-pdf" 
    name="todo_report.report_todo_task_template" 
  /> 
</odoo> 

The <report> tag is a shortcut to write data to the ir.actions.report...