Summary

Actions, document maps, and bookmarks simplify navigation of complex reports , report hierarchies, and more. SSRS supports three types of actions: Drillthrough (or Jump to report) , BookmarkLink (or Jump to bookmar ked areas of a report), and Hyperlink (or Jump to URL general web navigation).

Image and Text report items support the most complex navigation capabilities. Image and Text can contain a Document map label and Bookmark ID . Document map label and Bookmark ID mark navigation destinations on a report. Image and Text also support Jump to ... actions. Other SSRS items can serve as Document map label and Bookmark ID but do not by themselves support actions.

After a developer has defined document map labels, SSRS automatically renders a document map. Document map is supported by HTML, Excel, and PDF rendering extensions.

The next chapter reviews how SSRS works with multidimensional data sources and integrates with Analysis Services and Data Mining features of SQL Server 2005.