Name of a report column instead of her ID

Hello,
Is there in htmldb a function witch return the name of a column report if I have the id of the column ?
I ask this question, because I used the folowing in order to find a sort preference used in a report, for example :
v_preference := 'FSP'||wwv_flow.g_flow_id||
'_P'||wwv_flow.g_flow_step_id||'_R'||v_region_id||'_SORT' ;
v_sort := substr(wwv_flow_preferences.get_preference (v_preference),10) ;
Now, the result in v_sort is : 1 or 1_desc : if my report is sorted on the first column...
but I want to have the name of the column not the Id ?
Thanks.

Jina,
The sort preference is only used internally to append an order-by to your query before executing it. It's not always set, so if you reset your preferences, or if you run a report for the first time, it would be NULL. Also, if you click on a heading to sort your report, the value you get depends on when you read that preference, it could be either your previous or current sort column ID. And there's no API available that lets you translate the column ID into a column name.
Regards,
Marc

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