Pro SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

CHAPTER 6  BUILDING REPORTS

Figure 6-10. Report with navigation pane from document map

The EmployeeServiceCost_DocumentMap.rdl report in the Pro_SSRS project includes a document

map.

 Note Adobe Acrobat views document mapping as bookmarks when the report is rendered in PDF. Bookmarks

in SSRS perform a different function altogether. They are embedded within the report, and report items are

assigned bookmark links.

Visibility

Another feature of SSRS is the ability to show or hide areas of the rendered report based on user input,

results returned in a dataset or based on some predefined logic. Often users want to see only summary

information on a report, but would like to be able to drill into the summary data to see the detail

information if necessary. Report designers might make two reports, a summary and a detail report,

which have to be updated and maintained separately. These reports are often based on the same query.

Fortunately, SSRS’s ability to show or hide report data does away with the need to create separate

reports. The visibility properties for report items control which report items are shown or hidden.