Hi,
What approach are you using, something like this? http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Personalization+in+SAP+Business+Intelligence+4.0+Web+Intelligence+Publications#PersonalizationinSAPBusinessIntelligence4.0WebIntelligencePublications-PublicationCriteriatobeconsidered
Is your error the same? I just did an internal search and found bug ADAPT01674781
For error "Service Provider is not ready CR Publication" fixed in Patch4.9 - but this is for Dynamic Recipient lists specifically.
The link to 'fixed issues list' for P4.9 is here; https://websmp109.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000813222012E
.. Annoyingly, the error 'Service Provider is not ready CR Publication' isn't referenced in the pdf, but i assure you - this is what i can see in the bugs database internally.
Please can you give some more detail? (What variable are you filtering on & how? number of records in the query, how many subreports etc)
Regards,
H