title: ssrs setting column visibility on rowgroup
body: <p>I'm trying to hide a column but it belongs in the RowGroups area. Unfortunately, the Column Visibility is greyed out and disabled. I'd like to just hide the column under certain conditions (using expressions) but keep the grouping.</p>
  
  <p>I found a similar question on SO but its solution did not work for me. Is there a workaround for this?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10522848/ssrs-column-visibility-inside-row-groups">ssrs column visibility inside row groups</a></p>
  
  <p>I've tried shifting some of the columns to the body area of the tablix, but then I can't merge cells vertically. I'm not sure what my options are.</p>
  
  <p>In the image below, I'm trying to hide the first column but the Column Visibility option is disabled.
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XfklC.png" alt="Trying to hide the entire first column">.</p>
  
  <p>SSRS 2008 R2</p>