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Reporting Services Grouping/Visibility/Toggle

Hello - Let's say in reporting services 2005 I have a table (reporting services table populated from a dataset) which has column headings like:
State | FirstName | LastName | Address

and the table in the report is currently showing row data such as:
Hawaii | Joe | Someone | 123 volcano rd.
Hawaii | Jack | Blades | 54 peach street
Texas | John | Smith | 123 street
Texas | Bill | Jones| 456 street
Texas | Sally | Struthers | 1345 street

could someone please give detailed steps on how i would do the following with the data?
end up with 1 row for Hawaii and one row for Texas that toggle, when i click the "+" next to hawaii, it expands to show the user info data for hawaii, and the same thing for texas, etc...

i know it has to do with visibility/toggle and grouping, but apparently i'm not putting things together exactly right

thanks!

friskyweasel

ASKER

this is what i've tried so far:

in layout mode, insert a second row below the original
leave the State value as it is in the first row, column #1
cut and paste the FirstName, LastName, and Address values from the first row into the 2nd row, starting at column #2
select row 2, and set the visibility to false, and set the toggle item to the State textbox (row1,col1)

now when i run the report i can click the "+" next to the state name, and it expands to show the firstname,lastname, and address data below it...but it's showing a seperate row for each state - i want there to be only one unique state, and when i click the "+", it expands to show ALL rows that belong to that state

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Yurich

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friskyweasel

ASKER

that's perfect - worked just as you said - i had tried combinations of some of the steps you outlined, but apparently i never actually achieved those exact steps in the correct order

thanks a lot!

Yurich

glad to help :)

friskyweasel

ASKER

oops - sorry Yurich - i forgot to accept your answer as the solution - if you have a free minute, could you have a look at my latest question?
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22710154/Semi-Urgent-Reporting-Services-2005-pass-multi-value-parameter-to-function-in-code-behind.html

perfectshark

just to clarify, there's also an option of visibility in the row, you shouldn't use this one.

it's much better to use the group visibility option. to toggle the rows.