Hm. It might not be obvious from the symptoms, but the server name being wrong is actually the cause of the other issues.
If the server name is set wrong, the wizard doesn't have access to the user information because it would violate the browser security for apps from two different domains to share data. So it can't get the user ID from the other window.
The answer is make sure what you have set in \ibi\apps\pmfdata\a_hostname.fex is the same as the web server you're running PMF from.
Luckily changing it takes all of 10 seconds in a text editor.
You're also saying Alert Wizard didn't give you an error message that helped you figure this out. We don't like that. We will take a good long look at Alert Wizard's error handling.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Bob Jude Ferrante
Director of Business and Development
WebFOCUS Performance Management
Bob_Ferrante@ibi.com
917-339-5105
I'll take any questions about PMF - business or technical - anytime!