Sorting in Cross Tab

Hi,
We are using the Cross Tab component in Crystal Report XI and the cross tab have the sorting option as ascending, descending and specific order.
The Sorting order will come from the query as an parameter, in that case how do we achieve the sort order in Cross Tab or how to use the sort in specific order.
Please provide the solution or any reference.
Thanks in advance.

Right click on crosstab and go to Crosstab Expert and in the columns click on "group options" button and in the options tab select "Use a formula as sort order" and write the condition like this
if {?Parameter}="Ascending" then
crAscendingOrder
else
crDescendingOrder
Hope this helps!
Raghavendra

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Right click on crosstab and go to Crosstab Expert and in the columns click on "group options" button and in the options tab select "Use a formula as sort order" and write the condition like this
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Please advice, how sorting can be done in Crosstab report.

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Using the group option you can get the ascending or descending sort order however if your requirement is other than that, you can use a specified order as below:
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