Url sorting in the report

Question

I've a table which contains two columns. The first column is a url and second column is report name corresponding to the url. I generate a htmldb sql report, with these two columns, first column is url and second column is the report name. Since the url name would be long and cryptic, I want to use the report name as display name for the first column also, but the underlying link is still url, which the user can click to generate report. Now, the problem comes when I try to sort on fisrt colunm, which is url and that does not make sense. Is there a way I can click the first column header for sorting, but the sorting should actually happen on second column, which is report name?. Then I can hide the second column and mimic the sorting as it's happening on the url display name. Any ideas are appreciated.
thanks

Answer 1

Jonathan,
All the regions are based on the same SQL query:
SELECT display_name, url
FROM url_table
For the first region (URL Hidden) in the Report Attributes page, I de-selected the 'Show' option for the url column and selected 'Sort' for the display_name column. Then I added a link to the display_name column such that the 'Link Text' was #DISPLAY_NAME#, the 'Target' was URL and the 'URL' was #URL#
The second region (URL showing) was a copy of the first but without de-selecting the 'Show' option and the third region (URL hyperlinked) was a copy of the second region with the link on the url column instead of the display_name column ('Link Text' = #URL#).
Hope this makes sense.
Cheers,
Bryan.