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                                    | gbrittonMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
                                        2780 Posts | 
                                            
                                            |  Posted - 2013-11-15 : 16:33:42 
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                                            | I have a report that uses a table but has no grouping.  Just things like:  Order, Date, Quantity, etc.I establish an initial order using an ORDER BY clause in the query.  However, I'd like to give the users the option to re-order their reports on the Date column.  So, I did this:1. Selected the Date textbox2. Right-clicked and selected text box properties3. in the Interative Sorting tab, enabled sorting of the detail rows based on the value of the Date.In preview mode, I see the little sorting icon, but NOT in the header row.  It's in the Date textbox itself, and in every row returned. This is not what I expected.  Worse yet, the sort button effectively does nothing.  The table is not reorded by date.Then I redid the three steps above, but on the column headers.  That worked!  Not what I expected, but I'll take it!! |  |  
                                    | James KMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
                                    3873 Posts | 
                                        
                                          |  Posted - 2013-11-15 : 16:41:26 
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                                          | quote:What I suspect might have happened is that you added the interactive sort to the data cell, not to the header cell.Remove the interactive sort from the data cell, and instead apply it on the header cell.Originally posted by gbritton
 I have a report that uses a table but has no grouping.  Just things like:  Order, Date, Quantity, etc.I establish an initial order using an ORDER BY clause in the query.  However, I'd like to give the users the option to re-order their reports on the Date column.  So, I did this:1. Selected the Date textbox2. Right-clicked and selected text box properties3. in the Interative Sorting tab, enabled sorting of the detail rows based on the value of the Date.In preview mode, I see the little sorting icon, but NOT in the header row.  It's in the Date textbox itself, and in every row returned. This is not what I expected.  Worse yet, the sort button effectively does nothing.  The table is not reorded by date.Then I redid the three steps above, but on the column headers.  That worked!  Not what I expected, but I'll take it!!
 
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