5/23/2016

What to do with 'For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors' when printing SSRS report in AX.

Recently, I encountered an anoying error where printing a regular report from AX with the error message 'For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors'. So I just googled it as usual and tried to find a quick fix. What I found were all about just restart AOS, SSRS service, regenerate CIL and so forth, but none of them worked in my case. The dummy message must cover variety of causes.
Meanwhile I noticed the error popped up when loading data, not right after running the report, so I think probably it's caused by the data, and the error happened in AX loading data logic cannot be explicitly shown through SSRS exception handling.
I went to the Report Manager URL and found the report, then just directly excuted it in browser. The error message popped up with detail information for me to analysis the problem. Indeed, this was a data issue which caused a runtime error in data provider. Easy fix at the data and the report was good afterward.