Unable to preview - XML Forms builder

Hello gurus,
please forgive the silly question as I'm completely a newbie on the argument.
I'm trying to implement a news iview in Portal; I found an exaustive and intesting How-to guide that designs exactly my scenario:
How to Create XML Forms (NW2004)
However, I tried to start from the existing SAP_DemoNews project doing some little modifications in order to include a society logo.
So, I opened SAP_DemoNews project and did a Save as... to MyTemplateNews project.
However, even though the project seems correct as there are no errors in the generate() phase, I cannot see a preview of any module as the windows which is opened contains the following message:
XML - Forms
Item /documents/xmlforms/xfbuilder/preview/MyTemplateNews.xml does not exist
I guess there's something wrong with paths and configuration, but didn't found any reference searching the forum; could anyone provide me an help to work with previews?

Hi Matteo,
> preview works correctly on the EDIT form, while still crashes on the Show and RenderListItem forms
"the preview function in the XML Forms Builder is not supported for the RenderListItem form" (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/42/f6733c20e73247e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm)
But for Show it should work, and you said it does for standard forms delivered by SAP!?
For the default trace, you can use the log viewer in VisualAdmin (7.0) or the log viewer in NWA (7.0/7.3). VA: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/57/5f1140d72dc442e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm; NWA: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/47/af4560fa711503e10000000a42189c/frameset.htm
Contact your basis people for further information; maybe they can check if the traces throw some insight...
Hope it helps
Detlev

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