Enabling remote errors in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS)
By default, reporting services returns the following error message when a report produces an error:
An error has
occurred during report processing.
Cannot create a connection to data source 'AdventureWorks'.
For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors.
Cannot create a connection to data source 'AdventureWorks'.
For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors.
Its inconvenient and sometimes not possible to have to browse the page on the local server. In a development environment it would be better to enable remote errors.
To enable remote errors in SSRS create a .rss script ( a plain text file ) with the following contents:
Public Sub Main()
Dim P As New [Property]()
P.Name = "EnableRemoteErrors"
P.Value = True
Dim Properties(0) As [Property]
Properties(0) = P
Try
rs.SetSystemProperties(Properties)
Console.WriteLine("Remote errors enabled.")
Catch SE As SoapException
Console.WriteLine(SE.Detail.OuterXml)
End Try
End Sub
Then run the script using the rs.exe utility that is installed with Reporting Services:
rs -i ssrs2005-enable-remote-errors.rss -s http://localhost/ReportServer
You can download the ssrs2005-enable-remote-errors.rss script here
Thanks to Robert Bruckner for the script.
