and welcome to my first post

So far, I have developed many projects using Geany and CMake which always has been at least enough. Recently, I heard of CodeLite and want to give it a try but I fail importing a project.
I tried following this manual: http://codelite.org/LiteEditor/WorkingWithCMake
but it always generates a new CMakeLists instead of using mine..
Does anybody have a hint why this happens?