I can't open a new file

hi,

 

I have just started to use trados studio 2014 and I watched the video. according to the video a translation panel should appear after I select the source document but i see only the title of the document, but not the content! I tried several times but it didn't work. Sometimes a conversation box appeared with a text like: conversation is unsuccesfull or something like that. why does it not work?

can anybody help me?