My reports were made with Visual Studio 2005 Express Web Developer when a report designer was integrated in the product. With 2008 that was pulled out and placed in reporting services. I'm not able to install 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio because I keep getting an error no one can solve. I guess that's supposed to be for designing reports. Don't know. But I can use the Visual Studio 2008 Shell. There's also a 2010 Shell which is cool, but it saves the report with a newer XML dictionary that reporting services does not recognize. The shell I guess is merely the default Visual Studio IDE. It will open and edit the report definition files (.rdlc), save them in a solution so all are grouped together, and my web applications will stream them out. My reports are output in PDF format, streamed directly to the client by instantiating a report object and calling the render method. Adobe Acrobat has a bookmark pane. From what I've read, creating a "document map" in the report causes the bookmark pane to appear in Acrobat. To make a document map I'm supposed to simply put text in the document map label of whatever report items causing the document map to be created, and thus the bookmark pane in Acrobat, to magically appear. There are two property displays. There's the properties window and the properties dialog. If the window is open it will change for whatever item in the report is selected. The dialog is model however, and can only be opened by right clicking on the report item when it is selected and choosing properties from the context menu. The "document map label" on the navigation tab of the dialog equates to the "label" property in the window, so it's not necessary to use the dialog. I've tried entering different things in the label property such as straight text and ="whatever", but reporting services throws an error any time I try to render a report that has anything in any label property. It must be failing at the point of creating the document map. Please help. Thanks

Further trial and error showed that the label must be placed on a text box, not a rectangle, subreport, etc.