I confess I'm still quite green at programming, so if I'm wrong, please don't be too harsh ;) Any direction would be appreciated. TIA, I'm not sure whether it is what you're looking for but it may be one of simplest solutions that you may change if you need to. As Andreas said before, ask a specific question :)
1. Log into ZMI and create a folder called 'Myfiles' 2. upload your files via FTP or something into 'Myfiles' folder and as you said before they should appear as 'File' objects 3. Create a file 'files2zpt.py' in the 'Extensions/' folder of your Zope instance (filesystem, not ZMI) and fill it with this code: #---------------- from Products.PageTemplates.ZopePageTemplate import ZopePageTemplate def files2zpt(self): for fname, fobj in self.objectItems('File'): self._setObject(fname+'_zpt', ZopePageTemplate(fname+'_zpt', str(fobj.data))) return 'ok' #----------------- 4. Go back to ZMI and to 'Myfiles/' folder and create 'External method' there by simply filling all fields in the add form as 'files2zpt' 5. Click on your new External method files2zpt in ZMI and 'Test' it :) Thats all HTH BTW. I tested this on Zope 2.8.8 -- Maciej Wisniowski