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How do I change order of columns in the 'Order By' Clause?!!?

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taxali

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Hi, Using Impromptu Administrator 7.3 to create a reasonably simple report.
I have 7 columns in it, I prepared an SQL statement by hand which contains GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses. I need to replicate it exactly in Impromptu Admin.

Here is part of the raw SQL query I developed:
......
GROUP BY
CategoryCode, Category,
ReasonCode, Reason,
OutcomeCode, Outcome
order by
Category,
Reason,
Outcome;
I created the Query in Administrator (I did not employ raw SQL). The generated SQL code is like this:

group by T1."CategoryCode", T1."Category", T1."ReasonCode", T1."Reason", T1."OutcomeCode", T1."Outcome"
order by 1 asc , 2 asc , 3 asc , 4 asc, 5 asc , 6 asc

So this has the correct columns in the correct order for the GROUP BY clause, but how do I force the ORDER BY columns to be like this:
order by 2 asc, 4 asc, 6 asc
?????????????

Please let me know if anyone knows how to do this!

Thanks heaps....
 
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