I have been following this thread with quite some interest, as I'm basically trying to get the same things to work :) happily, I've got a ZClass working with auto-adding to a catalogue called 'Catalog' in the same directory as I dtml-create the ZClass objects, however, I've noticed one strange thing (which I'm sure is my fault..) - when a new item gets auto-added, the ZSearch I have in that same directory suddenly only finds one item in the ZCatalogue, and NONE of the meta-data is there, only the ID (and modification time), however, all gets fixed if I open the ZCatalogue in manage and do an update of it's catalogues objects.. Could someone please tell me what I'm going wrong???? I would have expected the auto-adding feature (which is basically working) to just make this happen smoothly, as it is presented as a totally automatic system (which is good) :) ------------------------------------------------------------ Stuart Woolford, stuartw@newmail.net Unix Consultant. Software Developer. Supra Club of New Zealand. ------------------------------------------------------------