The report you need is rarely the report that ships. Odoo's built-in views answer the questions Odoo anticipated; the ones that matter to your business tend to cut across modules in a way no standard view does.
So people export to Excel and rebuild it by hand every month. That works until the person who built the spreadsheet is on holiday, or until someone asks what changed.
CodeCobra takes the question in business terms — margin by product line, orders at risk of missing their date, revenue against target by rep — and either pulls it as a spreadsheet you can send straight on, builds it as a dashboard, or puts it into Odoo as a proper saved view your team can reach themselves.
The distinction matters. A one-off question wants a spreadsheet. A question you'll ask every Monday wants building into Odoo, where it stays live and nobody has to remember the steps.
Real production requests, condensed and with anything identifying removed.
Can you build me a dashboard where I can see the cost of finished products against my price lists, and the margin if I sell at each price?
What happened: Built the margin dashboard in Odoo. When a pivot showed impossible values on zero-stock rows it found the bug, fixed it, and verified exactly 39 cells changed with the pivots untouched.
Please send me a list of customers that owe money above 90 days.
What happened: Generated the overdue receivables list straight out of the live ledger.
The follow-up report should let me choose which report goes in the email body, multi-select the detail reports as attachments, and send PDF, Excel or both.
What happened: Built the whole configurable wizard, added a regression test, and verified all four attachment files appear — with a screenshot.
Create a month-to-month business health analysis for the last two years.
What happened: Pulled the ledger, built the month-over-month view, and wrote the read-out in plain language.
101701 110200 110300 110400 49100
What happened: Understood the GL codes from context alone and exported the year's journal entries for each account into one spreadsheet.
I need a commission report like we had in the past — easy to read, scoped to one salesperson's accounts.
What happened: Rebuilt the report in the old readable format, scoped to that salesperson, with the landed-cost breakdown included.
Whichever you ask for. A spreadsheet is a snapshot you can circulate immediately. A saved view or report inside Odoo stays live and your team can reach it without you. If you're going to want it repeatedly, build it into Odoo.
Yes — .xlsx workbooks with real formulas, number formatting and multiple sheets. Totals recalculate when you edit them.
Ask in the same conversation. It still has the connection it built the report from, so it can go back to the source records and explain a specific line.