Problem in specifing the intial sorting column of a report

hi
we have a report based on a table with 6 columns in our home page .we display all the six columns as sortable.
we also need to sort the contents of the report by 4th column by default when ever the user logs in ,but what happens is ,report gets sorted automatically depening upon the previous sorting column selected
is there any way of telling htmldb to sort the report by 4th column ..
many thanks
S.Jawahar

hi ,
this infotype has a interesting solution . In my case it was for US country .
We select the veteran status and this is field P0077-VETST which is stored in DB table .
Now based on this value and the molga of that pernr we need to look at the T5UVT table for the combinations avaliable for MOLGA AND VETST .
Based on the config's of this table the screen values are getting populated .
It dosent allow any combinations and the picked values are passed to the screen for fields Q0077-VETS1 VETS2 VETS3 VETS4 .
Br,
Vijay.

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            int dy = descending ? dx : -dx;
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                g.setColor(color.brighter().brighter());
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        public int getIconHeight() {
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        public SortableHeaderRenderer(TableCellRenderer tableCellRenderer) {
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                                                       Object value,
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                                                       boolean hasFocus,
                                                       int row,
                                                       int column) {
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                    value, isSelected, hasFocus, row, column);
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How do I retain the default 3 column sort order in a standard report

I have a standard (not interactive) report of about 12 columns in which I set column 1 as the primary sort, column 2 as the second sort within that and column 3 as another sort within 1&2. I have also made other columns sortable by the user. However, once a sort is done by the user on one of the other columns, the default sort order never seems to come back, even if the application is closed. Is there something I need to set?

Standard report sort columns are stored persistently as user preferences. The <tt>apex_util.remove_sort_preferences</tt> method can be used to remove them, resetting reports to the default sort order. However this is not a precision instrument: it removes the user's sort preferences for all reports...
It is possible to remove the sort preference for individual reports using the <tt>apex_util.remove_preference</tt> method by reverse engineering the required sort preference name from the admin user preference report, but I wouldn't recommend it. I recently worked on an application where this had been done for one report, but we removed this "feature" as: (1) no one could remember why it had been done in the first place; (2) it was completely inconsistent with the behaviour of the other app reports; (3) the implementation was Byzantine (get non-obvious pref value and have page re-request itself with additional parameters) and lead to (4) poor page performance.
Unless users are jumping up and down demanding this I'd stick to the status quo...
(Please update your forum profile with a better handle than "user719232".)

The 'sort columns' default behavior

It seems the new sort columns remove the word "The" by default in a title listing. I'm curious to know if this action can be removed.
Also, since it is apparently possible to pre-program sort column behavior, is it possible to always reverse to lastname, firstname in the sort composer column?

I just thought since iTunes now comes pre-programmed to alphabetize without the "The" first, it might be possible to revert it to original behavior.
I don't know if it's something that can be reverted, short of going back to a previous version of iTunes or finding something (a script?) to strip the entries in the Sort Name field for those songs.
Looking at the tracks in my Library, it seems that at the point of updating, iTunes went through and stripped the initial 'The' from all the song titles and placed that in the Sort Name field. Tracks that don't start with 'The' and maybe similar articles like 'A' (I can't think of any in my library to check) do not have anything in the Sort Name field, and are thus sorted normally by the full title.
The behavior of the program hasn't changed, but the song data that it operates on has.
WRT iPod and contacts- last name and first name are two different fields in the contact information- the same switch is possible in AddressBook. But (and this is a BIG but) if, when entering the contact into AddressBook, you enter the full name into one field-either First Name or Last Name- you cannot change the order.
What the iPod is doing is the same as you clicking another column heading in iTunes.

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