LOV Sort in Universe

Hi,
We have a Variable created in BEx Query for Calender Year/Month and also List of Values (LOV) object come from the Bex Query to the Universe
LOV is working finr, but default the values are in ascending order. Do we have any solution or approach to get these list of values in descedning order. I am looking for some tricks in Universe or in Bex query. I am aware to sort this in Web I reports.
Currently, we get - 2001001, 2001002... 2011001, 2011002..
We expect as - 2011002, 2011001, 2010012, ....., 2001002, 2001001.
Any suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
Jai

Thanks Dave for the reply.
Yes, currently users are doing the same (click on the heading of the LOV display to reverse the sort order).
Thought whether we could have any option in Universe or in Bex query to get in descending order as we do in relational universes.
Most of our reports have many prompts, in that they would like to see all the LOV in descending order.
Thanks
Jai

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