Crosstab sorting with date headers

Hello all,

in my crosstab report I have two dimensions the "horizontal" are dates, which differ from month to month (not fixed!!), the "vertical" dimension consists of some textual data. So I have to sort facts in the crosstab in descending order by latest month in report. I´ve tried to add some ranking or other flag in the dataset but I didn´t get it working. Is there a way to do something like that?

Regards Rainer

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mwilliams

Hi Rainer,

Can you explain more about what your data looks like? Maybe show a diagram of the data and how it's supposed to be sorted? Thanks.

Rainer

hi michael,

in the attachement there´s a screenshot of my report (I hope you can find anything..). Data comes from database and is computed every time from date of report execution. I have to sort data by latest month in report (the most right column in my report).

Thanks rainer

mwilliams

Rainer,

The image is too small for me to see, but I think I understand now. If you have the following crosstab:

--| January | February | March
A | 1 | 2 | 2
B | 1 | 1 | 1
C | 2 | 3 | 4
D | 0 | 1 | 3

You want to see:

--| January | February | March
C | 2 | 3 | 4
D | 0 | 1 | 3
A | 1 | 2 | 2
B | 1 | 1 | 1

Is this correct?

Rainer

correct!!

regards rainer

mwilliams

Rainer,<br />
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Sorting by the measures isn't a feature of a crosstab yet, I don't believe. This is something that could definitely be requested as an enhancement. You can do this at <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/reportabug.php'>BIRT: Reporting Bugs and Requesting Enhancements</a>.