I’m sure this horse has been beat to death somewhere, but I cant seem to find the corpse:

I want a repeating group to collapse when hidden so that the group below it rises to fill the empty space. I am aware that repeating groups can not collapse (there better be a good explanation for that!). So, the repeating group has to be put into a standard group that will collapse with the repeating group inside it. I am also aware that for a group to have the option to collapse when hidden, its parent group cannot be a “fixed” group. But, when I change the parent group to column, or align to parent, or row, all the elements within the parent group go nuts setting up to be consistent with the new layout. And they can not be moved freely back to their desired position. So, what am I missing here guys/gals/gurus?

Thanks