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<p>How do I merge cells for specific rows in BIRT? Something similar to using colspan when creating a table in HTML. The data is extracted from a database and returns a fixed number of rows.</p>
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<p>Specifically I want to convert a BIRT report that looks like this:</p>
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<p><img src="
http://i.stack.imgur.com/qKBQw.png" alt="qKBQw.png"><br>
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<p>to look like this:</p>
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<p><img src="
http://i.stack.imgur.com/HHsQ8.png" alt="HHsQ8.png"></p>
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<p>thanks for your assistance!</p>
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