RDLC filtering nested tables

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Published on 2009-07-24T21:00:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 22:13 UTC
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I am creating an RDLC report where the dataset consists of several datatables. There is one parent table and several child tables.

What I would like to do is display relevant data from each child table for each row in the parent table.

Here is a simplified example: table1 = "Purchase" has columns PurhcaseID, PurchaseNumber, PurchaseDate table2 = "PurchasedItem" has columns PurchaseItemID, PurhcaseID, ItemDescription

In my RDLC, I have a Purchase table grouped on PurchaseDate and would like to display the PurchasedItems for each Purchase. The current solution uses a subreport, but I do not like this because it leaves an ugly empty space when there is no data for the subreport display. (I would be fine with using a subreport if I could properly hide it without leaving an empty space.)

I am not able to rewrite the stored procedure to return a single table, either.

How are others dealing with this scenario?

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