Hi,

I recently migrated to SDL and XMetal tools and DITA writing from the previous unstructured writing. The migration was automated and this resulted in a lot of topics being migrated as a wrong topic type. For example, a task topic was migrated as a concept topic. The cause for this issue is that the content was not written following DITA standards.

It takes a lot of time to change the topic type in SDL because right now, I have to create a new topic with the correct topic type and then copy the content from the incorrect topic and rewrite it. Is there a way where you could change the topic type even if it results in a invalid structure? After the topic type is changed, I would check it out and rewrite the content.

Basically, I want to avoid creating a new topic every time I need to change the topic type and then move the content and delete the old topic.