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Asked: 2026-05-25T11:42:41+00:00

I have a drill down table and I can sort by the Group columns,

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I have a drill down table and I can sort by the Group columns, but sort by the Value column (Quantity) doesn’t work.

I’m right-clicking the header, selecting textbox properties, selecting interactive sorting, selecting Detail Rows, Selecting Sort By Quantity. I’ve also tried every permutation on the available options. Is there a trick to getting this to work?

Edit: I found this nice chart saying what to do in different sorting scenarios:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207011(v=sql.100).aspx
If I’m the 3rd case (not sure) of the chart, then was is a “child group header row”?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I figured it out. Sorting Details is not as simple as sorting groups. It looks like the 4th scenario in the chart linked above. These are the steps:

    1) Right click the column header, select textbox properties, select interactive sorting.

    2) Select Group under Enable Interactive Sorting…

    3) Select the parent group to sort (the detail column is not a group so it’s no listed)
    4) (the trick) Under Sort By, use an expression that is an aggregate of the dataset field to sort by, which in my case was: =Sum(Fields!Quantity.Value)

    Sorting Details is not really point and click like sorting Groups. I’ve seen a few other unanswered posts with similar issues, so I hope this helps someone else.

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