Does RS support to change the report size automatically?-URGENT!!!

I will use MSRS to create reports in a .Net Smart Client project later.

For some kinds of report, there are some customized columns which may be displayed or not. I design these reports like this: first create all the columns, then set the "Visibility-Hidden" property of those customized columns using expression which including some report parameters.Thus, these customized columns can be displayed or hidden by setting the value of the report parameters at the runtime. But another problem emerged.The size of report backgroud can not changed automatically along with the length of DataTable.So if there are some columns be hidden, there will be some margin on the right of the report and the Title of report was still in the center of the original report,not changed to the center of the new one. Due to the "Size " property of report and the "Size"&"Location"properties of textbox does not support expression.

Is there any one can give me some solution?

I am not sure whether the current version of MSRS support such kind of requirement?If not,will the MSRS final release comes out on November 7 support it?

Thanks!

Hi!

I also have this problem! I am building subreports that are getting more and more generic, but now I have noticed that the (optionally) hidden rows in the subreport's table is showing up as blank space on the main report. That makes this useful way of making the subreports nothing more than useless.

I have found no way to set the size of the subreport "background" or rectangle smaller than the designed area.

The reporting services seems more and more tied down to me. It has to have much more abilities than it currently has to survive. At the moment automation of Word seems much more flexible, but is client based. Still, in many situations the current RS will not deliver enough to fulfill the requirements. I hope this will change soon.

/Michael

|||The report never shrinks the size of the body so hiding a bunch of columns won't help your report. If you want a title to span the items in a table, put it in the table header, similar to how this matrix report was done: http://blogs.msdn.com/bwelcker/archive/2005/05/11/416720.aspx.|||But I am using a "table" as a way of displaying different checkboxes and texts, as a form, and sometimes one or more of the rows in these (generic) subreports are not to be used and I hide them (that's what makes it more generic).

I am not using it to show a list of information but as a way of showing a dynamic one-page form.

When I hide a row it shows up as approximately half a row of blank space on the main report. In this case the Visiblity setting is useless since there is too much space between subreports on the main report.