when creating a soap request I click 'new request' give it a name and click ok, but the request does not appear in the list, it vanishes. I foloowed a similar procedure for creating a soap response and that worked ok, anyone know why ?
With the information you provided there is no way to help you, other than tell you "cannot reproduce!" and point you to the documentation: http://www.soapui.org/soap-and-wsdl/getting-started.html
