How do I remove/delete a total added to an SSRS group? - reporting-services

I cannot believe that I am asking this question. It seems like it should be so simple. I have already spent a bunch of time online looking for the answer.
I am using Visual Studio 2012 to develop an SSRS report.
All I need to do is remove a total row from a tablix. Essentially I want to reverse what this guidance from MSDN shows on how to add a total row. I can remove the content from the row easily enough, but now I have a empty row. I don't want an empty row. (Notice the blank row to the right of the CR group label.)
Here's how I created the total row.

Ok, so this was fairly simple. Must have been a brain cramp ! Basically in design view on the report, you just need to select the cells that were added by the Add Total (which is NOT the entire row) and then right click and choose Delete Rows

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Purely looking at the image.. all you need to do is put a tablix on your main report add a parent group of title_id..
Then delete the column that is created to the left (but NOT the group)
Right click on the detailed group -> insert row outside group. This will create a row inside the Title_id group but Outside the detail group.
In this line.. add the title ID, name etc.
The detail lines will show the details.. obviously.. You need to play around a bit to figure out the rest of it..
It looks to be a fairly straight forward report.. not sure why you need to use a subreport for this

SSRS grouping giving blank rows

Apologies for the simple question but it's driving me crazy.
I am trying to show how many items a surveyor has seen in a year. I am counting the unique identifier as the expression for the number of items seen.
I have added grouping and included my sum within the groups as per the report link here:- (I'm new so can't post pics yet)
https://i.stack.imgur.com/vZNUM.png
But when I preview it, it shows a blank row next to the sum.
Report in preview
So the first row shows 19 and there are 19 blank rows in the column next to it. I try to delete that column but then I get the message table must include one column.
What am I doing wrong and wht is the right way to do this?
Many thanks for any help
Natalie
The bit that's left over on the right is the "Details" region - essentially where you want the detail of your report to live.
Try putting your sum() in there, deleting the "Details" group, and deleting the column where your sum() is now.

Create an expression based off grouped rows ssrs

I want to create a single rectangle on a report that displays red if there are more then 2 distinct projects being worked on within that week (see image below):
http://imgur.com/dPHW1TT
I'd need to write some kind of expression like IIF(CountDistinct(Fields!Project_Name.Value)> 1, "Red","White") but the issue is that I need the projects to be aggregated per user.
As you can see in the above report I have it grouped on User >> Project, and thats what I'd need to captcher in this single expression.
Is there any way to specify a group in an expression?
I've actually managed to do what I wanted via filtering on the tables group, and then hiding all the cells bar one in the table.
http://imgur.com/G8IKMbS
Although if anyone knows a way to group within an expression I would still be interested in knowing.
Thanks

2 Page Report per record

I am having issues recreating an old report with SSRS. The original report would pull about 5-6 records from SQL, and then have a corresponding 2 page report for each record. This would be easy if I could just create an individual report for each record, which is possible, but is not what is being asked of me.
I need to be able to have 2 pages for each record I return. For example:
Page 1 will have a different table than page 2 for the same record and will be view-able as:
record 1:
page 1,2
record 2:
page 3,4
record 3:
page 5,6
No grouping is necessary for records. They just need multiple pages to repeat.
Someone I work with suggested a sub-report, but I'm not sure how that would work.
I use the report builder to create reports.
Thanks for any help. I will gladly clarify if necessary.
The nature of SSRS is that it grows based on whatever data is available when it is run. In order to force it to take up two pages per record, you'll need to set a placeholder. One way to do that is to have a table that spans two pages. Make sure the "CanShrink" property is set to False for the cells in at least one of the columns. You can remove the borders to make the column invisible if the length of the report varies.
Next, you can add columns as needed for your other report data. It doesn't really matter if you want to use a subreport or not, either way will work.

Matrix report - Page breaks for each column group

I'm using VS2005 to create my reports.
I have a matrix report that works beatifully. I have country going down on the left hand side (row group called "matrix1_country_name") and data going across for 2 column groups, product_node and month (column groups "matrix1_Node" and "matrix1_calendar_month_name" respectively)
The only thing I want to improve is that this report will always show 5 year/60 months of data, and with multiple nodes I'd rather have each node be on its own page (Ideally I'd love to have it on the same page but in the rows just below to first node, but I'm not sure that's even possible).
I've seen numerous responses on these boards about putting in page breaks on column groups, but I can't seem to find how to do that in VS2005. The examples I've read that can do that seem to have a different interface so I'm guessing they aren't in VS2005.
Does VS2005 allow you to add page breaks after each group item and I'm just missing it? Or is there a trick I can do to get that to happen? I've also read about nestin matrix reports in list reports but that seems more complicated than doing the page break on the column group, so I'd rather do the easiest solution if I can.
Ah, I see pagebreaks are ignored on column_groups. Well I guess I'll try one of these workarounds.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/ea9d795b-8d17-41d2-a1d7-a4069ebb4539