Entire Table is pushed to the next page when rendering a SSRS 2005 Report (as .pdf) in SSRS 2008

Question

I have a SSRS 2005 report that I'm rendering in SSRS 2008 as a .pdf. The report contains (among other things) a table that's very simple: header row, details, no footer, no aggregation, no grouping, keep together = false, pageBreakAtStart = false, pageBreakAtEnd = false, repeatHeaderOnNewPage = true. I resized the table to be much narrower than the body of the report just to be sure it wasn't extending beyond the bounds of the report, pushing everything down. But, no matter what I try, if some of the detail rows in that table would need to be pushed to the next page, then the ENTIRE TABLE is pushed to the next page, not just the extra rows.

So my question is: Is there a workaround for this problem, is this a known issue, or is it even possible to get this 2005 report to render properly in 2008?

NOTE: this is related to a question that I previously asked here, and is based on this MSDN forum post started by a coworker. This question is not the same as my previous question, as I'd like to see things work properly in with a 2005 report. If it's not possible, that would be good to know, as it would indicate that we need to upgrade one of our servers to SQL 2008.

Answer 1

Have you tried putting the table inside a rectangle (and check indeed that the table is a child of the rectangle using the Document Outline pane)

Answer 2

Actually, I did exactly the opposite of what is suggested in the other answers here...My table was already inside the rectangle, and it was still shifting to next page. So I removed the rectangle, and it seems to be working without any issues now!

Weird..But may be it all depends on the over all layout of the report or something.

Thanks!