Hi folks, I'm using ZTopic. One thing I've noticed about the management interface is that, although an appropriate tab is highlighted when you click that tab, if you go to a subsequent screen, often "contents" will erroneously become the highlighted tab. This is causing problems as I explain to non-technical folk how to use ZTopics. I say "select the contents tab", and they say "but the contents tab **is** selected!". I have a fix for this, but the real problem is in the logic of lib/python/App/manage_tabs.dtml: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('a_', 0)"> <dtml-in manage_options mapping> <dtml-if expr="URL[-(_.len(action)):]==action or URL[-17:]=='/manage_workspace' and _['sequence-start']"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('a_', _['sequence-index'])"> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> Here, the variable 'a_' represents the "active" tab. If the last part of the URL matches one of the manage_options of the current object, then that tab will be the highlighted one. Otherwise, the first tab will be highlighted. It should ideally be possible to tell manage_tabs what tab should be highlighted, imperatively, when required. However, in the absence of such a mechanism, I have changed the DTML files in ZTopic like this: The form searchEdit.dtml is really part of the "Search Criteria" logic, so I want that tab highlighted. That tab's action attribute is called "editForm". Therefore, in the file searchEdit.dtml, I replace this: <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#000099" VLINK="#555555"> <!--#var manage_tabs--> <p>Edit catalog search criterion number <dtml-var "index+1"> on Catalog <strong><dtml-var catalog_id></strong>.</p> With this: <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK="#000099" VLINK="#555555"> <dtml-with "_.namespace(URL='editForm')"> <dtml-var manage_tabs> </dtml-with> <p>Edit catalog search criterion number <dtml-var "index+1"> on Catalog <strong><dtml-var catalog_id></strong>.</p> (I modernised the <!--#var ...--> to <dtml-var ...> along the way.) To get the full effect, you'd need to do a similar trick with the other dtml files in ZTopic. Any takers for a full patch? Or, is there a better way of doing this that I don't know about? -- Steve Alexander Software Engineer Cat-Box limited http://www.cat-box.net