Problems about financial reporting studio and planning

Hi,all:
Here are two problems:
1. after i have installed the fr client in my pc,when i connect to the server,it promot an error infomation as follow:
; nested exception is:
java.lang.NullPointerException
and i can't open the fr interface and view the fr report
2. When i create a new rule under business rules folder in Essbase Administration Servers,i select the outlin,but only the Essbase applications i can choose in the "avilable server",there is no Planning applications.
Hope someone can give me a hand.
Thanks very much.

What's the version of Hyperion that you are using?
For the first issue, if this is working in somebody else's pc, I would be suspected by your pc's security/java settings.
For the second issue you mentioned below is possible answers:
1. You can't write business rules against EPMA apps in AAS. Use calcmanager instead.
2. Login to planning with your user name, launch a form, go back to AAS and try again.
3. Make sure you've got access to write rules in AAS.
Cheers,
Alp

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