When developping reports for the Role Tailored Client one anoying thing is that you can not really debug reports. In NAV 2009 service pack 1 a new feature is available that can help debugging reports. This feature will allow you to see the resultset/dataset that was generated for a report.

How to enable this feature ?

While in Preview mode you can Zoom into the underlying dataset of the report. In NAV 2009 RTM use this shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+F12. If you are using NAV 2009 SP1 the shortcut has changed to CTRL+ALT+F1 and it is also accessible from the help menu.

This will enable the feature and the following message will be displayed:

Now, just close and reopen the report and the dataset will be visualized in another popup window: