Unable to hide a field on an SSRS report

Question

I've written a report on SSRS which has an initial parameter that you select from. That then shows a specific set of records from a SQL database. However, dependent on that selection I want some of the fields to show or not show in the report.

The fields are listed as Row Groups

and I've gone into the Group Properties / Visibility and written the following under "show or hide based on an expression":

=IIf(Parameters!StoreType.Value = "xxxxx",true,false)

My impression was that would hide the column if what I specified was true and display it if it was false, however it's not working, it still shows that column associated with that "Group". I tried altering to "Fields" rather than "Parameters", but that has no effect either.

There are quite a few fields I would like to apply this to, but obviously I need to get one working before I roll it out to all the rest. If anyone can shed light on what I've done incorrectly/need to do differently that would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris

Answer 1

Put your expression on column visibility instead.

Right click the cell on top of column Store Group then select Column visibility.

Answer 2

You need to set the Column Visibility instead of Row.