You use the Visible Formula attribute to define the conditions of hiding a column when you run the report. If you do not want to have needless columns (for example, those with no data) in the report, you can hide a column or multiple columns by specifying appropriate hiding conditions in the Visible Formula box.

Hiding a column does not remove a column or its data at all. The column will be displayed when the report is generated outside the specified conditions.

For example, suppose you have an annual report that has twelve columns, where each column accumulates data by month. If you run the report in March, it will contain the data for the three months (from January to March), so only three columns will contain data. In that case, there is no need to display other columns that have no data. Thus, you can specify conditions to hide the columns depending on the period of time when you run the report.

For the Visible Formula attribute, you can specify such values as =True (for displaying the column), =False (for hiding the column), or a formula with specific conditions for hiding the column depending on the @StartPeriod parameter.

I have attached a couple of screen shots from a sample report from a demo company that comes close but you will have to add the Visible Formula to restrict to a single quarter.