When using the Down Then Across column mode a situation could arise where there are too few rows are available to output evenly in a report. In some cases may be necessary not to distribute data rows equally across all columns for better visualization.

 

 

The MinRowsInColumn property of the Data band can be used to define the minimum permitted number of rows in the first column. By default the value of this property is set to 0 which means that there is no minimum number of data rows. If the value of this property is higher than 0 then no less than specified number of rows will be output in the first column.   In the example below the MinRowsInColumn property has been set to 5: