Variables are only allowed when ordering by an expression referencing a column name

Question

We would like to use a parameter for the "Order By" of this query in the Visual Studio DataSet Designer:

SELECT Students.ID, Students.Surname, Students.Forename, Students.DateOfBirth, Parents.MotherName, 
       Parents.FatherName, Parents.AddressLine1, Parents.AddressLine2, Parents.City, 
       Parents.State + '       ' AS State, Parents.Zip,
CASE 
   WHEN len(ltrim(rtrim(Parents.PrimaryPhone))) = '10' THEN 
      '(' + SUBSTRING(Parents.PrimaryPhone, 1, 3) + ')' + ' ' + 
            SUBSTRING(Parents.PrimaryPhone, 4, 3) + '-' + 
            SUBSTRING(Parents.PrimaryPhone, 7, 4)
   WHEN len(ltrim(rtrim(Parents.PrimaryPhone))) = '7' THEN 
      SUBSTRING(Parents.PrimaryPhone, 1, 3) + '-' + 
      SUBSTRING(Parents.PrimaryPhone, 4, 4)
   WHEN len(ltrim(rtrim(Parents.PrimaryPhone))) = '' THEN 
      ' ' 
END AS PrimaryPhone,
CASE 
   WHEN len(ltrim(rtrim(Parents.SecondaryPhone))) = '10' THEN 
      '(' + SUBSTRING(Parents.SecondaryPhone, 1, 3) + ')' + ' ' + 
            SUBSTRING(Parents.SecondaryPhone, 4, 3) + '-' + 
            SUBSTRING(Parents.SecondaryPhone, 7, 4)
   WHEN len(ltrim(rtrim(Parents.SecondaryPhone))) = '7' THEN 
      SUBSTRING(Parents.SecondaryPhone, 1, 3) + '-' + 
      SUBSTRING(Parents.SecondaryPhone, 4, 4)
   WHEN len(ltrim(rtrim(Parents.SecondaryPhone))) = '' THEN 
      ' ' 
END AS SecondaryPhone,
       Parents.HomeEmail
  FROM Parents INNER JOIN
       Students ON Parents.ID = Students.ParentID
 WHERE (Students.Forename LIKE '%' + @SearchValue + '%') OR
       (Students.Surname LIKE '%' + @SearchValue + '%') OR
       (@SearchValue = 'ALL')
ORDER BY @OrderByColumn

This error is displayed:

Variables are only allowed when ordering by an expression referencing 
a column name.

We need help doing what the message is describing?

Answer 1

Try the following query.....

ORDER BY

CASE WHEN @OrderByColumn='Students.ID' THEN Students.ID END,

CASE WHEN @OrderByColumn='Students.Surname' THEN Students.Surname END