Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

CHAPTER 4  LAYING OUT A REPORT

Figure 4-16. Preview of table

The RDL listing for the Table you’ve created will span many pages, so we have chosen, where
appropriate, to include a section of the RDL output for each of the data regions. In Listing 4-2, you can
see a complete section that would be a child node to the , , and
ultimately the elements. The particular cell from the Table that the RDL is referencing is the
Patient_Name field that you added to its own grouping in the Table. Notice also that the field has a
section of RDL that defines CanGrow. Assigning the CanGrow property to a cell within the Table data region
enables it to expand automatically to fit the length of the data that it contains. The opposite is achievable
too, by assigning the CanShrink property.