Dynamic Column sorting in OBIEE?

Hi,
Does anybody knows how to sort columns dynamically in a report on asc or desc order.Any automatic mechanism.

Gianluca Ancarani wrote:
You can use in the RPD (in the Business Model Layer) a specific COLUMN SORT to sort a scecific Logical Column, in this way a column in a report is always sorted, but you have to build the specific COLUMN SORT inside the physical table or in the business model layer.
See this blog: http://obiee101.blogspot.it/2008/11/obiee-sort-order-column-property.html
Regards,
GianlucaI think the user is trying to sort the report based on the Names of the columns rather than the data in a specific column.

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user,
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-bifacts
http://www.obinotes.com

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>
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>
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>
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