Hi everybody, I'm trying to write an external method that returns different HTML snippets (actually structured text) depending on which role the person requesting the page has. The idea is to give different info to the viewer if the user happens to be a manager (or some other role) vs anonymous. This way, one could for instance include extra hyperlinks (for example to 'manage this page'). Is something like this possible at all? Perhaps such info isn't sent to anonymous pages. And if it's possible, how does one do it? The goal behind this question is to produce pages which have content that is very easy to change. The anonymous user would see the normal page, and a user that has a special 'editor' role would instead see (if the user first logged in as editor) extra hyperlinks. Clicking on such a link would bring up a page with a textarea field, where the editor can change the text (in structured text format). All texts would be stored in properties of the folder, or possibly in other documents. The external method would look somewhat like this: def editable(self, id, REQUEST=None): """Completely fictional and nonfunctional code, based on misconceptions. """ # we know of no such id, so give error if not hasattr(self, id): return "[error] No such id: %s" % id if REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role("editor"): # if we are the editor, we want to show a hyperlink to edit_<id here> # or something similar edit_hyperlink = "<a href=\"edit_%s\">%s</a>" % (id, id) # hyperlink gets prefixed to actual text return edit_hyperlink + structured_text(getattr(self, id)) else: # just return the text, formatted in structured text format return structured_text(getattr(self, id)) Would this be a good idea? Can one get this working at all? Regards, Martijn