hello, i found this "patch" for creating symbolic links within zope: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2001-August/012711.html <snip> - edited CopySupport.py - copied the manage_pasteObjects method to a manage_pasteMonikers method - commented the #ob=ob._getCopy(self) line (the duplicate object part) - added a "Paste Ref" button to the lib/python/OFS/dtml/main.dtml file that calls the pasteMonikers method </snip> it seems to be great for my purposes & works fine & i plan to use it on a production system. has someone any information about problems with this kind of "patching"? something like breaking the database in long terms or even more ugly? thank you, Maik -- Maik Jablonski Zentrum fuer Lehrerbildung Universitaet Bielefeld Germany