Break Order Attribute (Asc/Desc) in Reports

Please forgive me my ignorance.
I have a dummy column that I use to select another column into. I set the break attribute on it as ascending.
Now my user wants it either way i.e. ascending or descending.
Is there way to change the break order attribute to change sorting dynamically depending on inputs.
Thanks in advance to all who reply.

I was hoping that someone would know how I can modify the
ORDER BY 1 DESC,27 ASC part
The ORDER BY 1 DESC,27 ASC part is generated by break attributes. I would like to modify the "DESC" dynamically from within the report so I could change it as needed.
I don't know if it can be done via one of the srw package functions... and if so, which one and how. That was where I was trying to go.

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Is this Oracle Reports bug – "break order property" in "group above" report

Is this Oracle Reports bug – “break order property” in "group above" report
Could anybody confirm that in "group above" report, we could only order the brake column's values with ""none" or "ascending" or "descending" provided by "break order property"?
In the following example, “Dept” is brake column. Oracle Reports allows us to order values in “Dept” with “descending” provided by “break order property”:
Dept 30
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
Dept 20
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
Dept 10
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
or “ascending” provided by “break order property”:
Dept 10
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
Dept 20
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
Dept 30
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
I need to do:
Dept 20
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
Dept 10
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
Dept 30
job ename salary
xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx xxx
Could I do this? Could anybody confirm that we could never ever do this, or If yes, how?
Millions of thanks for advice.
M.Z.
Edited by: jielan on Sep 18, 2010 8:23 AM

Why should that be a bug? You have a custom requirement and have to find a way to fulfill it. But, what is your actual sorting order? Do you have only this three departments? If so, you could add an addtional column in your query like
DECODE(DEPT, 20, 1, 10, 2, 30, 3, 4) SORTINGput that column in the same group as dept and sort after that new column.

Decode in order by - asc/desc

I'm trying to be able to dynamically change the asc/desc in the order by.
Here is some sql that works:
select * from transactions order by decode(somevar,'a',acct_nbr,'c',card_number,acct_nbr) asc
What I wanted was something like this:
select * from transactions order by decode(somevar,'a',acct_nbr,'c',card_number,acct_nbr) decode(anothervar,'a',asc,'d',desc,asc)
but this doesn't appear to work. Am I missing something, or is there another way.
Thanks in advance,

There are a bunch of restrictions on ordering when you use union all. It usually either requires the numerical position of the column, so if you want to order by the first column, then you order by 1, or a column alias, which sometimes can be used in only the first select and is sometimes required in all of them. However, even if you order by column position, such as order by 1, it does not seem to allow this in a decode. The simplest method is to use your entire query containing the union all as an inline view in an outer query. Please see the following examples that do this and also demonstrate how to get the order by options, including ascending and descending that you desire, assuming that your columns are of numeric data types.
scott@ORA92> -- sort by acct_nbr asc:
scott@ORA92> ACCEPT somevar PROMPT 'Enter a to sort by acct_nbr or c to sort by card_number: '
Enter a to sort by acct_nbr or c to sort by card_number: a
scott@ORA92> ACCEPT anothervar PROMPT 'Enter 1 to sort ascending or -1 to sort descending: '
Enter 1 to sort ascending or -1 to sort descending: 1
scott@ORA92> SELECT acct_nbr, card_number
2 FROM   (SELECT 1     AS acct_nbr,
3               3     AS card_number
4           FROM   dual
5           UNION ALL
6           SELECT 2     AS acct_nbr,
7               4     AS card_number
8           FROM   dual
9           UNION ALL
10           SELECT 3     AS acct_nbr,
11               2     AS card_number
12           FROM   dual
13           UNION ALL
14           SELECT 4     AS acct_nbr,
15               5     AS card_number
16           FROM   dual
17           UNION ALL
18           SELECT 5     AS acct_nbr,
19               1     AS card_number
20           FROM   dual)
21 ORDER BY DECODE ('&somevar',
22                  'a', acct_nbr * NVL (&anothervar, 1),
23                  'c', card_number * NVL (&anothervar, 1),
24                  acct_nbr * NVL (&anothervar, 1))
25 /
ACCT_NBR CARD_NUMBER
         1           3
         2           4
         3           2
         4           5
         5           1
scott@ORA92> -- sort by card_number asc:
scott@ORA92> ACCEPT somevar PROMPT 'Enter a to sort by acct_nbr or c to sort by card_number: '
Enter a to sort by acct_nbr or c to sort by card_number: c
scott@ORA92> ACCEPT anothervar PROMPT 'Enter 1 to sort ascending or -1 to sort descending: '
Enter 1 to sort ascending or -1 to sort descending: 1
scott@ORA92> SELECT acct_nbr, card_number
2 FROM   (SELECT 1     AS acct_nbr,
3               3     AS card_number
4           FROM   dual
5           UNION ALL
6           SELECT 2     AS acct_nbr,
7               4     AS card_number
8           FROM   dual
9           UNION ALL
10           SELECT 3     AS acct_nbr,
11               2     AS card_number
12           FROM   dual
13           UNION ALL
14           SELECT 4     AS acct_nbr,
15               5     AS card_number
16           FROM   dual
17           UNION ALL
18           SELECT 5     AS acct_nbr,
19               1     AS card_number
20           FROM   dual)
21 ORDER BY DECODE ('&somevar',
22                  'a', acct_nbr * NVL (&anothervar, 1),
23                  'c', card_number * NVL (&anothervar, 1),
24                  acct_nbr * NVL (&anothervar, 1))
25 /
ACCT_NBR CARD_NUMBER
         5           1
         3           2
         1           3
         2           4
         4           5
scott@ORA92> -- sort by acct_nbr desc:
scott@ORA92> ACCEPT somevar PROMPT 'Enter a to sort by acct_nbr or c to sort by card_number: '
Enter a to sort by acct_nbr or c to sort by card_number: a
scott@ORA92> ACCEPT anothervar PROMPT 'Enter 1 to sort ascending or -1 to sort descending: '
Enter 1 to sort ascending or -1 to sort descending: -1
scott@ORA92> SELECT acct_nbr, card_number
2 FROM   (SELECT 1     AS acct_nbr,
3               3     AS card_number
4           FROM   dual
5           UNION ALL
6           SELECT 2     AS acct_nbr,
7               4     AS card_number
8           FROM   dual
9           UNION ALL
10           SELECT 3     AS acct_nbr,
11               2     AS card_number
12           FROM   dual
13           UNION ALL
14           SELECT 4     AS acct_nbr,
15               5     AS card_number
16           FROM   dual
17           UNION ALL
18           SELECT 5     AS acct_nbr,
19               1     AS card_number
20           FROM   dual)
21 ORDER BY DECODE ('&somevar',
22                  'a', acct_nbr * NVL (&anothervar, 1),
23                  'c', card_number * NVL (&anothervar, 1),
24                  acct_nbr * NVL (&anothervar, 1))
25 /
ACCT_NBR CARD_NUMBER
         5           1
         4           5
         3           2
         2           4
         1           3
scott@ORA92> -- sort by card_number desc:
scott@ORA92> ACCEPT somevar PROMPT 'Enter a to sort by acct_nbr or c to sort by card_number: '
Enter a to sort by acct_nbr or c to sort by card_number: c
scott@ORA92> ACCEPT anothervar PROMPT 'Enter 1 to sort ascending or -1 to sort descending: '
Enter 1 to sort ascending or -1 to sort descending: -1
scott@ORA92> SELECT acct_nbr, card_number
2 FROM   (SELECT 1     AS acct_nbr,
3               3     AS card_number
4           FROM   dual
5           UNION ALL
6           SELECT 2     AS acct_nbr,
7               4     AS card_number
8           FROM   dual
9           UNION ALL
10           SELECT 3     AS acct_nbr,
11               2     AS card_number
12           FROM   dual
13           UNION ALL
14           SELECT 4     AS acct_nbr,
15               5     AS card_number
16           FROM   dual
17           UNION ALL
18           SELECT 5     AS acct_nbr,
19               1     AS card_number
20           FROM   dual)
21 ORDER BY DECODE ('&somevar',
22                  'a', acct_nbr * NVL (&anothervar, 1),
23                  'c', card_number * NVL (&anothervar, 1),
24                  acct_nbr * NVL (&anothervar, 1))
25 /
ACCT_NBR CARD_NUMBER
         4           5
         2           4
         1           3
         3           2
         5           1
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Needs rows to be listed in BEX in a particular order(not asc desc)

See the thread.
Needs rows to be listed in a particular order(not ascending or descending)

To create a hierarchy you can go in RSA1, infoobject tag, find your infoobject, double click on it and set the flag with hierarchy under Hierarchy tag; save and activate and exit.
Than right click and choose 'Create hierarchy'.
After creating hierarchy, in bex properties of the infoobject you can set it to use this hierarchy.
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Changing report order using the break order property

I am trying to allow the user to pick the order of the report's data. This has lead me to ask the following questions:
How can the break order property of a Database Column be set at runtime, specifically in the Before Report program unit??? (changing the order BY clause in the SQL query will not be sufficient because report builder enforces that at least one column�s break order in each Group, other than the lowest one, must be set at design time)
How can the order of the Database Columns in a Group be re-arranged at runtime, specifically in the Before Report program unit???
Thanks for any help that you can provide.

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Hi Experts,
I have created a report in Oracle 6i where I am getting the ORDER BY clause at runtime. And in the datamodel query, I am using a lexical parameter to say, order by the column selected in the parameter.
The problem am facing is, at runtime, the ORDER BY clause is being ignored by the report and it takes the column mentioned with break order property as 'Ascending' and sorts by that column.
I am not able to set the break order property to None to all of the columns as the reports builder is erroring out asking me to have atleast one column set to Asc or Desc!
Have anyone faced this problem before ? Is there anyway to get rid of this and make the report use by columns mentioned in the ORDER BY clause.
Please note: I tried an explicit ORDER BY <columnname> in the data model query but still the report uses the break order value mentioned and sorts by that columns.
Appreciate your help on the same.
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Hi! all
i would appreciate if any one would clear me the concept of the
order by clause using the ASC and DESC
i have a table which has the few columns
including the date the column as one of them
Most of the Queires i deal with need to
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Experts please clarify my question ASAP
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