Hi, I have what I'm hoping is a simple question. I've setup a search form against a ZCatalog using field searches and everything works great. In the search form, I have the following code (also works OK): <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('sort_on','date')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('sort_order','reverse')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('meta_type','News Item')"> What want to do, and can't seem to figure out, is to call REQUEST.set to set a logical NOT value. For example, I've tried the following for the goal of making the author field NOT EQUAL to the specified value: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('author','NOT John Smith')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('author','<> John Smith')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('author','!= John Smith')"> but none of these work (of course, I'm just guessing at syntax). Can anyone tell me how I SHOULD be setting a logical NOT condition in this example? Thanks so much! Doug Morse morse@pobox.com