Form-based publishing

Hi Experts,
We have an issue with Form-based publishing.
The documents (News Items) are stored in the KM repository as XML documents, but are edited and viewed in the browser using HTML forms. All of sudden all the News items under KM repository are converted to xml file due to copy/paste method at file system level (Not through KM). And the layout set (NewsBrowser) which we have used to render the news items are not working, it show an empty page.
What could be the reason and is there any procedure so that we can restore all the news items as Form-based publishing.
Thank you in advance
regards
sunil

Hi,
first backup the XML files ;o)
Then try this (I suppose all the resources are from the same XMLFormsBuilder project):
1) create a template XML forms news resource in the documents repository
2) create a destination folder for the news in the KM
3) copy all the XML to the dest. folder
4) now goto (you have the ContentManager role) Content Management -> Reports -> Running Reports(related links) -> Goto reports -> Content Administration -> Mass operations -> Propagation of the properties
5) click Start -> define name, set the location to the destination directory (for example /documents/newsforms/)
6) click Commands -> check Propagate Properties -> set Property Template Resource to the RID of the template news you have created in the documents repository (for example: /documents/10e87f94-faf4-2b10-1bbb-a1e7aa71470f.xml), Properties for propagation set to "cm_resourcetype", check Overwrite Existing Properties
7) click "Start"
8) check the results
9) enjoy
Romano

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