Comments on: Hierarchy – order of displaying lowest level attributes

By: John Tesson

John Tesson — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:22:57 +0000

Yes, we’ve tried setting a sort order in the RPD for the logical column in the BMM layer and it doesn’t help. The value we’re trying to sort is varchar. Thanks for your response!

By: Andriy Yakushyn

Andriy Yakushyn — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:49:21 +0000

Hi John,
The answer to your question is “Org Detail Name” should come before logical column “Org Detail Number”.
As far as your problem – are you trying to sort a numeric or a varchar value? Have you tried to set sort order in column properties in RPD? Let me know if you need further help with this. I’d be delighted to help.

By: John Tesson

John Tesson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:17:37 +0000

Question about your description of the problem. When you say that “it doesn’t sort alphabetically” do you mean that the actual values in Org Detail Name and Org Detail Number aren’t sorted correctly or do you mean that the logical column “Org Detail Name” alphabetically should come before logical column “Org Detail Number”?
I’m asking because our problem is that we can’t get the proper sort order for the actual values from a logical column that is at the lowest level of our hierarchy when having drilled from a higher level logical column. There’s no way to specify a default sort order on a column that you get to by drilling. We’ve tried specifying a sort order within the RPD but it doesn’t help.