Muse and BC web forms deleted

I created BC web forms to complete my Muse website
and each time I publish from Muse all my BC webforms are erased? it remains only the web forms created within Muse.
any idea what I am doing wrong?
thanks for your help
rgds
Olivier

I had a lot of trouble with this. I got some good assistance from Adobe. Create the form in the BC admin. Place it on a test page. Go to it as a user and fill it out and submit successfully.
Now, in muse... use the "insert html" feature to place the tag to the form. I also found that it is good to go ahead and place the css file above the form tag for that form.
So best if you customize it in dreamweaver or some editor, testing it on the "test" page you are using to submit it with an embeded as opposed to attached style sheet.
So you can place the css and the form tag or the customized code, or a content holder with the customized code and the css in it. But for it to not Get over written; it has to have been placed on a page, and then from the front end as a user, go through it and submit so that the form will "stick". This is especially frustrating if you have not found this out and you have a live client site that is collecting money and every time you make a change for them on the fly; the form gets wiped out and sales stop when it is a seasonal deal and time is of the essence so I really appreciated the personal phone call I got over the Thanksgiving holidays from a person on Adobe technial support. If only it could have been explained so simply ahead of time and not taken all the escalations and wwaiting form answers. This made me look terrible to a client and it made BC look laughable. But, it won't happen again. You can delete the test page later or uncheck enabled in the admin online of BC.
Depending how long your form is, in Muse, make your site's bottom of page bottom stretchy verticly.
Also, if you are designing some snazzy form (as in my opinion we should be able to much easier in traditional html5 and css3 for BC)... You'll have to look at the css and convert those values over to the css of the BC form. Let me know if you find a better way but for sure Muse is capable of doing some sweet forms. The best I've ever seen. Just hard to work with form complex, custom forms.
I at one time thought about designing the style of the form in muse, getting the css and fiuring out a good way to apply that to the custom BC forms I needed to make that were more complicated than "contact".
I'd love to see a step by step on that "Anyone"...
I'll up load a movie of a site where I did this that was just for a New Year's Eve Party so the site is down.
Also enourmous, (I can't thank him enough) props to Randel Guilbro. He's an old friend and stepped in to help me re-build the forms every time they broke before the issue.
See and example of mixed muse forms with the few forms from e-commerce that were originally getting overwritten here. ----> http://youtu.be/EJKNS_6-LHA
Cheers,
Tyson
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