The Sort action is unavailable for the attributes columns on the "Published Columns" tab


In a SAS® Studio flow, if you select a table node and click the Published Columns tab, the attributes of table columns (such as Name, Label, Type, Length, Format and Informat) are listed.

You should be able to specify the sort order of the attribute values by doing either of the following:

Specify the sort order of the attribute values by clicking Sort ► Ascending or Descending.

However, since SAS® Studio 2025.09 to SAS® Studio 2025.11, the sort action on the column’s header is not available:

The sort action is not displayed.

The first version that includes the fix is SAS® Studio 2025.12. A patch has been developed for all versions of SAS® Studio from Stable 2025.09 to Stable 2025.11.