Getting ready

Create a crosstab report with Sales fact | Quantity as a measure. Drag Time dimension | Current year and Month on rows, Order method | Order method on column as shown in the following screenshot. Create aggregation on measure.

Define appropriate sorting.

How to do it...

As you can see the year column on the left is now successfully hidden.

How it works...

When we want to hide an object in Report Studio, we often set its Box Type property to None. However, in this case, that was not possible.

Try setting the box type of year column to None and run the report. It will look like the following screenshot:

As you can see, the cells have shifted to the left leaving the titles out of sync. This is most often the problem when Report Studio creates some merged cells (in our case, for the aggregations).

The solution to this is to format the column in such a way that it is hidden in the report.

There's more...

This solution works best in HTML output. The excel output still has a column on the left with no data in it.

You might need to define the background colour and bordering as well, so as to blend the empty column with either the page background on left or the month column on right.