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Angel

Hello,

I am working in a custom module and, as the title says, I am trying to modify the invoice report template. What I am trying to achieve is: 

  • The user creates an invoice.

  • The invoice created has one or more extra pages with some custom details.

  • These new pages have their own header and footer. It is like get two different (but related) reports at once.

What I have done is:

  • I have created two new models, invoice.details and invoice.details.line.

  • When the user creates a new invoice, an invoice.details and its lines are created and related to this new invoice.

  • Then I created a new view that inherits the template view and adds a new table with the data of the invoice.details.lines.

  • Now I see this new table in the invoice report preview, but if I download the invoice report or try to print it, my changes aren't there so I think there are more templates that I have to modify but I can't find them.


The template that I am modifying at this moment is the "external_layout_standard" located in odoo/addons/web/views/report_templates.xml.


Where can I find the other templates that I have to modify?


Thank you.


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Niyas Raphy (Walnut IT)
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Hi,

If you are looking to make changes in the account invoice report, you have to make changes inside this template, ie template with id  report_invoice_document in path  odoo/addons/account/views/report_invoice.xml

If you are new to Odoo and if you want to know how to make changes inside existing reports, you can check this: Customize Existing Reports in Odoo


And if you need to show different header and footer for this pages, better you define the new contents as a new report template with the header and footer as you need.


Then you can call this template here:

<template id="report_invoice">
    <t t-call="web.html_container">
        <t t-foreach="docs" t-as="o">
            <t t-set="lang" t-value="o.invoice_user_id.sudo().lang if o.type in ('in_invoice', 'in_refund') else o.partner_id.lang"/>
            <t t-call="account.report_invoice_document" t-lang="lang"/>
            <t t-call="custom_module.report_invoice_custom" t-lang="lang"/>
        </t>
    </t>
</template>


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Angel
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Hi,

Thanks for your help. I have tried to inherit the report_invoice_document template and it Works great, now if I download my invoice report or try to print it my custom template is still shown, nice!

I am trying to make it working the way you suggest in your answer in order yo show a different header and footer for this pages, but I added "<t t-call="custom_module.report_invoice_custom" t-lang="lang"/>" to the report_invoice template and it does not show my template. I tried the following:

* Added the line using a template that inherits the report_invoice template and adds the line using xpath.

* Added the line manually in the report_invoice template.

* Copied my custom template in the same file as report_invoice template (odoo/addons/account/views/report_invoice.xml) and then added the line manually.

I don't know why it is not working and neither know what more can I try. Can you help me?

Thank you!