How to Modify Header and Footer in Odoo’s QWeb Report

PDF Reports in Odoo allow you to create, customize, and export reports in PDF format. The header of a PDF report contains the company and client information, like the address and email. While the footer displays the page number, date, and time.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to customize the header and footer of the report.

We can inherit the default Document template to modify this content.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<openerp>
    <data>
        <template id="report_header_footer" inherit_id="web.external_layout_standard">
            <xpath expr="//div[@class='header']" position="replace">
                <div class="header">
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="col-3 mb4">
                            <img t-if="company.logo" t-att-src="image_data_uri(company.logo)" style="max-height: 45px;"
                                 alt="Logo"/>
                        </div>
                        <div class="col-9 text-right" style="margin-top:22px;" t-field="company.report_header"
                             name="moto"/>
                    </div>
                    <div t-if="company.logo or company.report_header" class="row zero_min_height">
                        <div class="col-12">
                            <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid black;"/>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="col-6" name="company_address">
                            <div t-field="company.partner_id"
                                 t-options='{"widget": "contact", "fields": ["address", "name"], "no_marker": true}'
                            />
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </xpath>
            
            <xpath expr="//div[@class='footer o_standard_footer']" position="replace">
                <div class="footer o_standard_footer">
                    <div class="text-center" style="border-top: 1px solid black;">
                        <ul class="list-inline mb4">
                            <li t-if="company.phone" class="list-inline-item">Phone:
                                <span t-field="company.phone"/>
                            </li>
                            <li t-if="company.email" class="list-inline-item">Email:
                                <span t-field="company.email"/>
                            </li>
                            <li t-if="company.website" class="list-inline-item">Web:
                                <span t-field="company.website"/>
                            </li>
                            <li t-if="company.vat" class="list-inline-item"><t
                                    t-esc="company.country_id.vat_label or 'Tax ID'"/>:
                                <span t-field="company.vat"/>
                            </li>
                        </ul>

                        <div name="financial_infos">
                            <span t-field="company.report_footer"/>
                        </div>

                        <div t-if="report_type == 'pdf'" class="text-muted">
                            Page:
                            <span class="page"/>
                            /
                            <span class="topage"/>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </xpath>
        </template>
    </data>
</openerp>