Comments on: SORT_BY_NO=NO? Very Confusing…

By: Kiran

Kiran — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:33:04 +0000

Hi Dev could you please post topic on report bursting with prompts.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
kiran.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:52:32 +0000

Hi, yingchai, unfortunately this post has nothing to do with sorting month names in chronological order. There are a number of posts on BOB that detail various suggestions on how to accomplish that. At some point I might get time to post a post here specifically for that purpose. This post was only about whether Business Objects will rely on the "distinct" operation on the database to provide a default sort, or whether an ORDER BY clause will be explicitly added to the LOV query instead.

By: yingchai

yingchai — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:27:36 +0000

But Dave, I still not really understand your post as I’m quite new to BOBJ. I have a problem while trying to sort the month members order. When I pull the month dimensions to my webi report, the month members will be displayed as; Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb, Jan, Jul, Jun, Mar, May, Nov, Oct, Sep.

How can we configure this order from the Universe so that when users pull the month members each time, it’ll be displayed according to calendar year (starting from jan…to dec)

Thanks.

By: Ferdie

Ferdie — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:24:50 +0000

ahh….but order by 1,2 is great when troubleshooting and playing around with sql in design or early devleopment stage.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:18:55 +0000

SORT_BY_NO could be thought of as “Sort by Named Objects” as in “Named in the Select”

By: kay

kay — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:56:57 +0000

Nice …after reading it I went & checked my .PRM files and found that for tredata by deafult it was set to YES but for Oracle by default it was set to NO. I’m assuming that’s the case after standard set-up. In any case excellent post Dave (as always)

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:58:51 +0000

Fantastic post Dave,

I didn’t know this was possible, thanks for sharing. The paramters whether they are, universe or prm, based have always been poorly documented and a bit of a “Dark Art”.

Cheers,

Mark.