Stretch a row with data overflow while having multiple rows in a single band

Question

My requirements bind me to have multiple rows in a single \"Details\" band.

Right now I am having a static text field (which is highlighted in color) in the leftmost

Answer 1

In case someone comes up to this problem and above answers don't work. I suggest checking your xml's root element. If it has the following attribute then remove it:

printOrder="Horizontal"

Then above answers should work.

Hope I'll save someone a day of googling the same stuff.