Sorting a cross tab total

I am a newcomer (user) to Discoverer so would appreciate some help.
I have written a cross tab report which shows my sales people in the rows and different sales catagories in the columns. I have then put a total on my rows (total for each sales person) which works fine.
I then want to sort my sales people by their "total sales" ie my calculation.
Looking in the sort functionality I appear to only be able to sort the sales people by each of the actual columns of data which come back in the report (ie the sales categories - cat 1 or 2 as below)
E.g
Cat 1 Cat 2 Total
Sales Man 1 10 15 25
Sales Man 2 15 30 45
I want to sort so that the 45 is viewed and Sales Man 2 is sorted to the top.
Help?
Ed

Hi,
Sorting a crosstab how you want is always difficult. If you only ever want two categories as column headers then it will be easier to use a table report and decode out the categories and sort by the total.
Otherwise you will have to use a analytic sum with a partition to calculate the total for each sales in a calculation and then include that calculation as a dimension. You will then be able to sort the crosstab using this dimension and if necessary hide the content of the field using formatting.
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