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Alex
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Is the a way to sort on a selected column in an ACROSS array? I have a report that outputs 4 ACROSS sets of 3 columns each. I would like to be able to select any of those columns to sort on? I have tried using a "BY TOTAL HIGHEST or LOWEST but that totals up each corresponding column in the 4 sets not returning what I would like. The only way I've found to do it is to output the final answer set to a HOLD file and PRINTing what amounts to a flat file but losing the ACROSS functionality in the process.


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reportmasterlvl3
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Create a defined numeric field based off the across that you want to sort by and make it an across as well, then sort by the defined field you created, then make it invisible on the report. Kind of sneaky, but see if that works.


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Alex
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Thanks. That did exactly what I needed it to do.


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Danny-SRL
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Alex,
Could you post the code for this?


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Alex
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For drill down see below. If used, OLAP re-sort on columns is part of it's functionality.
  
-DEFAULT &SORTDIR='LOWEST', &FLAG1=1;
-SET &SORTDIR = IF &FLAG1 EQ 1 THEN LOWEST ELSE HIGHEST;
-SET &FLAG1 = IF &FLAG1 EQ 1 THEN 2 ELSE 1;
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
     CAR.CARREC.MODEL
     CAR.BODY.DEALER_COST
     CAR.BODY.RETAIL_COST
BY  &SORTDIR CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD 
ON TABLE SET BYDISPLAY ON 
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=TITLE,
     COLUMN=N1,
     FOCEXEC=column_sort( \
     FLAG1=&FLAG1.QUOTEDSTRING \
     ),
ENDSTYLE
END


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