Overview

This app allows reports that were created using the LimeReport Designer to be executed from within Odoo.

Features

• Easy to use
• Portability: no installation required
• Nice looking design

Installation

For Windows

1. Download LimeReport for Windows.
2. Extract the contents of this folder into lrm_reports\thirdparty\limereport
3. Finally, install the module lrm_reports

For Linux

1. Download LimeReport for Linux.
2. Extract the contents of this folder into lrm_reports\thirdparty\limereport
3. Install the module lrm_reports
4. Finally, open the terminal and run this command $ chmod a+x limereport

chmod a+x limereport

If you get this error: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object >file: No such file or directory, Then run this command also:

sudo apt-get install libglu1

Setup

1. Create folder for your LimeReport templates e.g. /odoo/lrm_tmpl.
2. Login to your Odoo instance.
3. Go to Settings > Technical > Parameters > System Parameters and set the path of your LimeReport templates in lrm_reports.lime_report_tmpl_folder key.
4. Create XML Report template like this:

<template id="report_invoice_template">
    <t t-call="web.html_container"></t>
</template>

<report id="report_invoice"
    string="Invoice"
    model="account.invoice"
    report_type="qweb-pdf"
    file="YOUR_MODULE.report_invoice_template"
    name="YOUR_MODULE.report_invoice_template"
/>

5. Create a new report in the LimeReport designer for this XML report (you can use the LimeReport Windows designer). We will explain in more detail how to do this in How to use LimeReport designer.
6. After creating a new report in the LimeReport designer and save it in your LimeReport templates folder":
   6.1. go back to your Odoo instance and under Settings > Technique > Actions > Reports
   6.2. search for your report and tick is a LimeReport? field.
   6.3. After that, fill Template file name field with the path of the report you created with the LimeReport designer e.g. invoice.lrxml.

That’s all, if you have any issues, check out our video tutorials for more details or contact us at support@atlantis-solutions.ma.

How to use LimeReport designer

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