Can't Personalize a Publication schedule with Dynamic Recipients

Question

Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1
I am trying to create a publication that will run a crystal report for each of my customers individually. I created a separate crystal report to pull all the customer object IDs from my database that I want to use in the publication. I am having trouble scheduling the publication to run for all of my dynamic recipients once I have the publication created. I take the following steps to create my publication:
1.     General Properties: I enter a title
2.     Source Documents: I add the crystal report that I want run for each one of my customers individually.
3.     Dynamic Recipients: I select my crystal reports instance which contains a column with each of the customer IDs I want the main report run for. I select the customer ID column as the Recipient Identifier and the customer name column as the Full Name.
4.     Personalization: I set the CUSTOMER parameter of the report I want run to the Dynamic Recipient Mapping of customer ID from my dynamic recipient report.
5.     Formats: Set it to Excel
6.     Destination: a directory on my file system
7.     Additional Options => Advanced: Report Bursting method is set to One database fetch per recipient.
8.     I save and close the publication.
Now I right click the publication I just created and click Schedule. This is where I am confused. In the schedule options there is a section for Parameter but not for Personalization. If I try to run the publication without touching the Parameters section I get this error: Failed to retrieve data from the database. Details: [Database Vendor Code: 936 ] (FBE60502) [33 recipients processed.]
It says it tried to process 33 recipients (customers) but failed to retrieved data from the database. It failed to retrieve data from the data because I did enter a parameter when I scheduled the report.
I have also tried scheduling the publications with a parameter entered and it only runs a single report for that single customer I entered in the parameters section.
How to a schedule my publication to run for each one of my dynamic recipients individually?

Answer 1

I understand you need that parameter to get the correct data for each recipient. However the parameter should be 'answered' as part of the setup of personalization. You could try to create a simple report with sections using that ID as a section. Match that ID with the CR containing the dynamic recipient IDs and schedule that report. I would expect you get a single report for each ID. The parameter value should be included as part of your dynamic recipients report!.
Hope this helps...
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