How to render reports to PDF with bookmarks in R2 2021

Environment

Product Version	15.1.21.512
Product	Progress® Telerik® Reporting
Rendering Format	PDF

Description

When exporting a report with bookmarks to PDF in R2 2021 and R2 SP1 2021, the produced PDF does not have the report's bookmarks generated.

Suggested Workarounds

There are three approaches that can be used to ensure that the produced PDF will have bookmarks:

• The first and second workaround involve setting a property of the device info:

          var reportProcessor = new Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportProcessor();
  
          var deviceInfo = new System.Collections.Hashtable();
         //choose one of the two
          deviceInfo["OutputDocumentMap"] = true;
          deviceInfo["ProcessItemActions"] = true; 
  
          var reportSource = new Telerik.Reporting.UriReportSource();
  
          reportSource.Uri = "Report_with_Bookmarks.trdp";
  
          Telerik.Reporting.Processing.RenderingResult result = reportProcessor.RenderReport("PDF", reportSource, deviceInfo);
  
          string fileName = result.DocumentName + "." + result.Extension;
          string path = "../../../";
          string filePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(path, fileName);
  
          using (System.IO.FileStream fs = new System.IO.FileStream(filePath, System.IO.FileMode.Create))
          {
              fs.Write(result.DocumentBytes, 0, result.DocumentBytes.Length);
          }
  

  • The third approach is adding a TOC section to the report. When the report has a TOC section, the produced PDF is with generated bookmarks - How to Add a Table of Contents to Report Book.