Sorting the list of value like in BEX but out of crystal report

Question

All,
I have created a crystal report base on a BEX query where I have a variable for which  i am filtering base on a field period.fiscalyear.
for the list of values that prompt you for this variable ...
l in BEX we can do the sort by either alphabetical ascending order or descending alphabetical order such as:
here is for ascending
001.2008
001.2009
or by clicking on it we can do the following: (descending)
012.2009
012.2009
however in crystal when refreshing the report in infoview it sorts the list of value base on the month
something like this :
JAN 2008 [0FISCPER].[K42008001]
FEB 2008 [0FISCPER].[K42008002]
We would like to have in crystal the same behaviour than in BEX,  so in crystal we would like to be able to get the list of values sorted in either ascending order to descending order. is there a way to do so ?
notes also that we would like to avoid to create the variable in crystal
Philippe

Answer 1

Hi,
in Crystal Reports you have per InfoObject - depending on the definition - the key value, the description and the member unique name. In BW these objects are defined as NUMC in most cases - which means it is a character / string.
In your example the value is 001.2008 and 001.2009. What you can do in Crystal Reports is to split up the values into year and month and then sort based on the actual numbers.
Ingo