Question

I have a dataset in Reporting Services that looks something like this:

 ID  |  Type  | Name    -----+--------+--------     1  |   A    | Mary     2  |   A    | Joe     3  |   D    | Steve    12  |   F    | Irving   

I want to show a textbox IF AND ONLY IF there exists a row where type = A. Basically, I want to do ‘Fields!Type.Contains(‘A’)’ and bind the visibility to the result. Is this a backwards approach?

Answer 1

Create an invisible column with an expression that returns 1 if the value of the Type column is A. Create a sum of that column and use that in the expression behind the visibility property of your TextBox.