Sort in HTML

[akhattri]

Hello,

Is there any way we can sort the HTML output of the report in Report Studio after the report is run? I know we can do it during the report creation process, however, what if the user runs the report & then afterwards wants to sort it by some other column.

Thanks for your input.

[kaevne]

There is definitely a way, but it's not visually pretty.  I remember doing this in the report studio advanced class.  I'll dig it up if no one else answers in a few days.

[vinu]

You can achieve this by using Java script.
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[angela]

There are old instructions I wrote at http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Dynamically_sort_columns%2c_no_code_required%2c_c8 (I don't think the code works anymore but the instructions should still work).  The  main thing to remember is that it WILL re-run the query.

[kaevne]

I found the instructions, It's what angela posted.  you create an auto-submit value prompt on your report.  you can place it next to the column if you like.  The value prompt contains static choices that point to a sort key for the column, I'm sure you can figure it out from there.

Unfortunately, this looks VERY ugly and is not a simple click and sort.  However, i can see why that functionality doesn't exist as a link because Cognos uses links as drill-downs.

[ExchangeMe]

IBM/Cognos has a method on their website for sorting any column. Its for version 8.2 and its pretty neat looking using some java script they wrote. Heres the site: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/page201.html
Hope this helps.