Replying to my own question I can report the following: I've made good progress and was able to move the date, and check amounts, and address to the proper locations. Here is what was most useful:
- I changed the paper format to match the paper that you are using.
- To avoid the blank space at the top, it was necessary to edit the paper format (settings -> reports -> paper format), and set the top margin to 0 mm. (Not yet sure how negatively this will impact my other reports, but I was not able to overcome the margin issue directly from the Qweb report).
- To position fields on the report, I found it was by far most useful to use CSS postion:absolute, for example,
<!-- Check Amount, Numeric-->
<span style="position:absolute;left:738px;top:139px;" t-esc="formatLang(o.amount)"/>
Now here are my outstanding requirements:
a) I'd like to include line breaks in the address, before the city name. I'm finding the default code for the address difficult to read (the section after t-field-options):
<address style="position:absolute;left:62px;top:190px;" t-field="o.partner_id" t-field-options="{"widget": "contact", "fields": ["address", "name"], "no_marker": true, "no_tag_br": true}"/>
b) I'd like to include the invoice number in the table under the description heading. I imagine this is a field that exists in o.line, but I haven't been able to find the documentation that provides me with the descriptions of the fields. I found this source of documentation that may be the best spot to look: http://useopenerp.com/v8/model/pos-order-line, but I've not yet been able to find how to extract the invoice number from o.line.
