Customizing the sort order of a field

Hi,
I would like to sort the order of a group on values within a field rather than in eg. ascending order
eg.
I would like to sort the group by values in the Status field, so if the Status values are 'Open', 'Closed', 'Unresolvable' then I would like to order the data by
Status: Open
Status: Unresolveable
Status: Closed
How would I do this?
Thanks

Yes,
We can do it
http://winrichman.blogspot.com/2009/09/custom-dynamic-sort-in-bi-publisher.html
<?sort:(number(status='Open') * 1) + (number(status='Unresolveable') * 2) + (number(status='Closed') * 3);'ascending';data-type='number'?>Put this after the for-each statement
do change the status to the element name in you xml.

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i have a customer table. i am displaying them in sorted
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