[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 50132] Provide as-is order for groups in Reports

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50132

--- Comment #6 from Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu> 2012-07-11 20:55:54 PDT ---
This is a reasonable request from an "advanced user's" point of view, I've at
times wished for a similar thing.

I'm not sure how to present it UI-wise, though.

1) Separate "grouping" and "sorting" in different dialogs?

   I think that is a bad idea, too confusing for non-expert user,
   that one has to put the same field in sorting *and* in grouping.

2) A boolean (yes/no) option on each group/sort field: sort yes/no?
   In that way, one can do grouping on a field without requesting sort
   on that field, and the UI is relatively clear.

   But what would happen if one enters the following:

   GROUP ON field foo / no sort
   SORT BY field bar

   Does it do the same as:

   SORT BY field bar
   GROUP ON field foo / no sort

   because the whole query is sorted by "bar"?
   I'm not too eager, confusing.

   Does it first group by "foo" and *within* each group,
   it sorts by "bar"?



Indeed a work-around now is to include the ID in the result query, but sim

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