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Planning & Consolidation => COGNOS Planning => Topic started by: LeeNash on 16 May 2013 07:39:53 AM

Title: Framework Manager - Report Studio - Sort Month Name in month order
Post by: LeeNash on 16 May 2013 07:39:53 AM
HI,

This may be another daft question from me, but I am using framework manager to configure a package for use with report studio.

The data is very basic, an employees name, where its budget or forecast, annual salary, month salary value and month name..
However when i query this information the month name is in alphabectical order, I obvioulsy need it in the actual month order however I can't think of a clever way of doing this.

If anyone can point me in the direction of a tried and tested method that works I would be very grateful!

Thank you all in advance

Lee
Title: Re: Framework Manager - Report Studio - Sort Month Name in month order
Post by: Prerna Chaudhary on 16 May 2013 08:18:10 AM
Hi Leen

You can actually include month id or month key in your package while publishing and then in the report studio you can sort the data container(list, crosstab, chart) by the sort key.

Go to Grouping and Sorting in the properties pane for that object in the report studio and then sort by month id/month key there.

Please include the month id/ month key as a query item in the query of that object even if you are not using it on the report.

It has to be in the query of that list/crosstab/chart so that appears when you actually sort it on the report.

Please get back to me if you have any queries.

Thanks and regards
Prerna
Title: Re: Framework Manager - Report Studio - Sort Month Name in month order
Post by: LeeNash on 16 May 2013 08:19:52 AM
great thanks, I just figured that out about 5 mins before your reply!
Thank you for your time