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Adding Sorting to Reports

You can add sorting and grouping capability to a report designed with Actuate e.Report Designer by using a custom ROL prepared in Actuate e.Report Designer Professional. For example, aclist_sorteable.rol for account list report. The ROL file is based on slightly modified Siebel Tools-generated ROL, which includes ssMemoryDataSorter on top of an existing DataStream (see Figure 8). This allows you to build entire reports enabled with wizard-based sorting and grouping.

Figure 8. Account List Report ROL File

To add sorting to report

1. Open Actuate e.Report Designer.
2. Remove the placeholder data source or existing DataStream.
3. Include a library that was created in Actuate e.Report Designer Professional, such as aclist_sorteable.rol.

   For more information, seeIncluding a Library.

4. Drag and drop the Memory Sort control in the data stream slot of the Report section.
5. From the application-level menu, choose Grouping.

   The fields available for grouping are displayed. These are fields in those report tables and views that have not yet been specified as group keys.

6. Double-click the field to group, or choose the field and click the greater than symbol (>).

   Actuate e.Report Designer adds a grouping field, and removes the field from both the Available Fields list and the detail frame of the report.