Keep Group on One Page using Reporting Services

Question

I created a report as part of a C# application using Reporting Services and I cant find some functionality I am used to seeing in other environments. I believe both MS Access and Crystal reports have an option called "Keep Together" so that you can keep a specific grouping of data on one page instead of the information being split over two pages.

How do I do that using 2005 Reporting Services when my report is rendered locally in a C# app and viewed using the .net report viewer. Essentially, I want to keep all records for a certain year on one page. I am using Visual Studio 2008.

The year is one of the columns and the number of rows for one year is always smaller than a page. My report uses just one table and has an innermost grouping by year and then another outer grouping by client name.

Currently I can fit two years of data on the report, however, if the data starts half way through the first year, then I get the following:

Example:

Page one: 1/2 of 2004 because the data started half way through 04

All of 2005

First half of 2006

Page2: Second Half of 2006

What I would rather do is push all of 2006 to page two.

I am currently using a table for all of the data in the report. There is a keep together option at the Table level, but I need one at the Group level. In this case the Grouping by year.

Any help that can be provided will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Please click on a group which you want to keep together in same page under Row Group section. After clicking on the desired group make "Keep Together option as True" in properties section. That's it. It worked for me.