Unexpected behaviour for Crystal Reports 2011 and publications

I had publication based on crystal reports 2008 hosted on a bobj 3.1 box.
The report was reporting off a BW Query and the publication list was also based on a BW query.
When it ran is successfully drop the reports on a share in pdf format.
I've upgraded the crystal reports to 2011 and they are now hosted on bobj4.0 box. I can run both reports successfully on their own.
Now I try to create a publication.
I am able to select the source report, but as soon as I try to select my the report for my dynamic recipients I get the following error message
Cannot open report document. --- Item SI_FALLBACK_LOCALE was not found in the collection. [CRCAF00000004]
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel

Hi Daniel,
You do not state the patch level of the BI4.0 system, I would advise you to test with one of the later BI4.0 Patch levels i.e. Patch 2.4 or Patch 2.5 if possible as there have been some fixes in relation to publications which may help.
Alternatively can you open the Dynamic Recipient report in the CR2011 designer, refresh it, republish it back to BI4.0 repository. Then schedule the Dynamic Recipient report on it's own and try recreating the publication again - does it work?
The error:
"Cannot open report document. --- Item SI_FALLBACK_LOCALE was not found in the collection."
suggests there is some kind of mismatch between the locale used in the upgraded CR2011 report and the BI4.0 system.
Were the XI3.1 environment and the BI4.0 environment installed with the same selection of Language Packs? If not you could bring the BI4.0 system in line with the XI3.1 system in terms of language packs and retest. However as Language Packs can not be added post BI4.0 installation that would require a reinstallation of BI4.0.
Also if you create a simple test Dynamic Recipient report in BI4.0 does this work? That would at least confirm there is some type of corruption in the migrated BI4.0 Dynamic recipient reports.
Kind regards,
John

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