Group Ordering

Question

Hello,
I want to display items with a group but I don't want the break order to be either ascending or descending, I want the order to be by my "ORDER BY" clause which uses a field called ROW_ORDER. However my report keeps getting sorted by the ORGANIZATION.
My SQL is:
SELECT ALL
ORG_DATA_TABLE.ROW_ORDER, ORG_DATA_TABLE.ORGANIZATION,
ORG_DATA_TABLE.PREFERRED_FIRST_NAME, ORG_DATA_TABLE.PREFERRED_MI,
ORG_DATA_TABLE.PREFERRED_LAST_NAME, ORG_DATA_TABLE.E_MAIL,
ORG_DATA_TABLE.SDN_PHONE, ORG_DATA_TABLE.PDN_PHONE,
ORG_DATA_TABLE.BUILDING, ORG_DATA_TABLE.ROOM,
ORG_DATA_TABLE.OPERATIONAL_TITLE, ORG_DATA_TABLE.FIRST_NAME,
ORG_DATA_TABLE.MI, ORG_DATA_TABLE.LAST_NAME
FROM ORG_DATA_TABLE
ORDER BY ORG_DATA_TABLE.ROW_ORDER
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Answer 1

Hi Alan,
Suppose you have a query like
SELECT DEPTNO, MGR, ENAME, SAL FROM EMP ORDER BY SAL
(MGR is the department Manager ID, so suppose that every department has one manager)
Now in your data model you have DEPTNO and MGR in the master group, and ENAME and SAL in the detail group. Now if you want your groups to be ordered by MGR, and not DEPTNO, go to the Property Inspector of DEPTNO (in the data model), and choose Break Order > None. Make sure that Break order for MGR is acsending.
So you can choose which column to order the groups by, but they have to be in the master group. So your groups will be ordered by what you choose in the "Break Order" property, while the detail records will be ordered by the SQL query "order by" clause (provided the order by column is in detail group).
Navneet.