Empty Space on Report when table(s) are hidden

  • Hi all,

    I have a drill down report with lots of different tables in it. Depending upon the criteria from the top level report only 1 of these tables at any time contains data.

    Each table contains an expression for visibility. This works well. However if the table that is used is quite far down I get a lot of empty space above the table. So although the tables are hidden you don't get rid of the space they all take up.

    Is there any way of doing this do you think? I have created in this way because the top level grouping report is just one report that shows lots of different business questions and groupings. However each group might point to a drill down containing different data items (Areas of the system) so one report triggers one report

    Top level

    @Area Demographics

    @Question 6

    @Cohort Age

    Report shows Age Grouping. User Click on an Age For example 6

    Drill down Report

    @Area Demographics

    @Question 6

    @Cohort Age

    @DataItem 6

    Report shows all the Demographics information for 6 year olds

    Top level

    @Area Sales

    @Question 10

    @Cohort Area

    Report shows Area Grouping. User Click on an Area For example Manchester

    Drill down Report

    @Area Sales

    @Question 10

    @Cohort Area

    @DataItem Manchester

    Report shows all the Sales information for Manchester

    Sales Table is beneath Demographics. So I get empty space because Demographics is hidden.

    Although it works it does look messy. Id love a few ideas on how to tackle this.

    Debbie

  • For me, making the table invisible usually collapses the space it had occupied (using =CountRows() = 0 in the Visibility properties expression for the table). Is there perchance a page break before or after the Demographics table? Or is the Demographics table sitting in a rectangle?

  • Thank you for that. For a start your expression is way better that the over complicated one I was using so its already quicker. And I definitely have less white space (I still have some but I think I'm just going to have to let that go)

    I thought that it might be the spaces between the tables so I pulled all the tables a lot closed together. I think it helped a little bit.

    I don't have any page breaks or rectangles. But its better than it was and faster so thank you:-)

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