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SSRS 2008 images after text

I have a Reporting Services Report that I am trying to make look like a restaurant menu. The way I want it to look is each menu item's description to be followed by a series of images, each one denoting attributes of the food (eg. healthy, new item, vegetarian friendly, etc)

It would look like this ([x],[y],[z] represent where the images would go:

Burgers
Regular Burger [x] [z] 6.99
Big Bacon Burger [y] [z] 8.99
Veggie Burger [x] [y] 7.99

I have accomplished this using a table but I cant figure out how to add the images. Obviously I could add them as columns, but this isnt what I want, I want the images to immediately follow the name of the food, which are all different lengths.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or ideas.

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jdroger2

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There are about 10 different attributes and theoretically they could add more, is there a way to have the image controls be a part of a table with a different dataset than the tablix I am in?

jdroger2

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forget my last post I've decided to do the attributes statically, but now the issue is how to make the text box grow horizontally based on the text inside, I have cangrow and canshrink set to true but it still doesnt work. when the content in the expression is larger than the width of the control, it just wraps to the next line, which I don't want.

mckoder

Unfortunately Reporting Services doesn't support "horizontal CanGrow". The CanGrow/CanShrink only supports vertical size. To avoid wrapping you'll have to make the textbox as wide as the largest content.