title: Crystal Reports to SSRS conversion
body: <p>I have a situation where I am converting Crystal Reports to SSRS.</p>
  
  <p>The difficulty I am encountering is that Crystal Reports are more "free form", for lack of a better phrase.  The reports i am converting have numerous groupings (eight in all) and are put out in more of a haphazard free form way, in both the grouping headers/footers and in the detail band, and I am trying to convert that layout to SSRS.</p>
  
  <p>SSRS is more "rigid", if you well, with the Table layout cells for the detail band, and makes the free form layout more difficult, i.e. placing fields out in a free form manner as opposed to being relegated to the rigid table grid format of SSRS.  </p>
  
  <p>I suppose I could create a separate Dataset with the same Stored procedure input to produce the desired result, but wow that's a lot of extra processing.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas or suggestions?  Hope my question makes sense</p>