I'm working on a site which manages news articles for a web publication. Currently I have an Article ZClass which has some properties about the article. In addition, Article is has ObjectManager behavior. When an article is created, key properties of the object are defined and the article content itself is stored as a DTMLMethod within the Article. So far this has worked fine. However, I'm now looking into how I can add searching to my site. I've played around a little bit with ZCatalogs but some things still puzzle me. One of the things I would like to do is have a full text search of all my articles. However, it seems that the way I've structured things would require me to index all my DTMLMethods, whether they were contained in an article folder or not. I can't seem to tell the system that I want to catalog only the DTMLMethods which are contained inside objects with a meta_type of 'Article', for example. It seems that to get the behavior that I want I should store the article content in a property of my Article ZClass. Then, I could just index that property value and I would only get data from that property. What other ways are there to do this sort of thing? Another question I have concerns the difference between Catalog Indexes and Catalog Metadata. From what I've read, it seems that items in Indexes are things you can specify in a search in order to find objects which have values corresponding to the index fields. Metadata is information stored in the cataloged object itself and is immediately available rather than having to get the real object from the catalog object. Is this correct? If I wanted to do a full text search, do I just define one index field with a value of TextIndex? How does the TextIndex get populated. If I define a TextIndex and do a find of all 'Articles', what will end up in the TextIndex? Finally, is it generally true that a web site would define one ZCatalog (typically named 'Catalog') which contains data from all the different items that I might want to have cataloged? For example, I have Article data that I'm interested in and I have Issue data that I'm interested in. They don't have the same set of properties. Do I just define one ZCatalog and define indexes for all of the properties that I'm interested in from both objects? I've read the information on ZCatalogs from zope.org but I still have questions. Is there a place where I can see some additional examples of ZCatalog usage? Thanks. James W. Howe mailto:jwh@allencreek.com Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html Ann Arbor, MI 48103