"Position: Absolute" in VS Report builder

stras77

Is it possible to create a text box that does not affect other boxes when made visible.

What I have:
Invisible text box. The page looks normal.
Visible text box. Everything gets pushed down, and looks wrong.

What I want:
Invisible text box. The page looks normal.
Visible text box . Everything stays in place, and the text box shows the text on top of the other boxes.

Is this possible or do i really need to make approx 10-20 functions in order to make the text box toggle on and off, without?

stras77

I think that I'll be able to answer this question on my own, this time.

- The text box is always shown, the content is displayed via expressions.

Right click text box -> Expression...

=iif(Something.value = 1,"Text"," ")

If anybody can give something that looks more as an absolute positioning like in CSS for HTML, I would be very interested in knowing anyways.

kaspermoerch

You could try grouping your different elements in Rectangles. The reason is that elements at the same "level" in the document outline effect each others position when shown/hidden dynamically. When you group them in Rectangles the move further down the document outline tree and are thus no longer effected by elements higher up the tree.