In an External Method (that is, unrestricted python), for example, when you create a Folder one writes: self.manage_addProduct['OFSP'].manage_addFolder( id,title="folder") one would think that it would return the object it just constructed so it would be easy to use the new product to, say, create another folder or a file inside. But that appears not to be the case. (In my example, the folder was successfully created but the code handle = self.manage_addProduct... returned None. That made what I thought was the obvious way to handle things, namely applying the constructor to the new folder using handle = self.manage_addProduct... fails as the constructor returns None. So, how do you get a reference to the newly created object?