Sorting images mislabeled in Report Attributes?

I added some custom images in the Sorting section of the Report Attributes. When I ran the report the images displayed were opposite of what I expected (i.e. the descending image displayed for an ascending sort and vice versa.) Upon further investigation it appears that the labels in the Sorting section are indeed reversed. The descending image is displayed when the sort order is ascending and vice versa. Is this a bug?

Erik,
Thanks, this explains it. By specifying the request as part of your URL you run into the recently uncovered issue. The request you're setting is REMFROMLIST and ADD2LIST. You probably either have links that include those requests or you have branches where you specify them. Either way, in order to get reports sorting to work, you'll have to make sure that the request strings are not part of your URL. This is a work-around and the upcoming HTML DB patch release will solve this issue.
One way of avoiding this is to have computations on the previous pages that set a napplication level or page level item to the REMFROMLIST and ADD2LIST values and then you can use those items for your conditions that are currently evaluating those strings.
Hope this helps and sorry for the inconvenience,
Marc

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