Hi! I haven't tested your patch yet, but in theory it works fine for me. Though it is quite a hack ;-) Shane did something similar with his Symlik product, which still is on zope.org, but not linked at any more. If you want to look at it: It's here: http://www.zope.org/Members/hathawsh/Symlink <disclaimer>WARNING: THIS IS NOT FOR USE IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS!</disclaimer> Shane's symlinks have the same conceptual problem you have: They look exactly like the original objects. Your approach seems to be more straightforward in terms of the user interface because it makes use of the copy&paste, which is really cool. I am currently working on more or less the same thing for Kontentor 2 (previews maybe next week!). I've implemented my own session-based copy support (just stores the path of the object to copy, doesn't know about multiple copy yet), because I didn't like the cookie thing. My "symlinks" are real objects that just hold the path to the linked object. When called, they do: def __call__(self, mode='view', REQUEST=None): ''' ''' linkAsList = string.split(self.link, '/') object = self.restrictedTraverse(linkAsList) return object.__call__(REQUEST) So when I edit the symlink, I don't get the original object, but just the form to change the link path. But that's exactly what I want. It would be no problem to add another edit link in the Kontentor frontend that opens the original object instead. Links to the references of an object are actually impossible without a major hack. What I'll do instead is use the catalog to find all symlink objects whose "link" attribute equals the absolute_url of the parent object. That will do it for me. In the newest SmartSections (which will be Kontentor's editing frontend), you can copy and paste (or symlink-paste) objects (Headers, Images, Text blocks, News items etc.) around in the site. Really cool. It will also get a version-based editing and reviewing framework. I'm using versions because so I can combine changes in more than one object to an actual review request (which will, if approved, just commit the version). With CMF you can only add one object at a time. Cheers Joachim