Stefan Bund wrote: I hope someone can shed light on this subject, I have a rule of thumb for getting a nag on aquisition that hasn't failed me yet. I see every objectmanager as a directory in an ordinary filesystem. Normally in a filesystem if it has the following layout:: a/ # directory m1 # file (attribute) b/ m2 c/ m3 d/ m4 e/ m5 f/ m6 then if I am in 'f' and I want to get to attribute m2 in 'b' i will write: 1) ../../../b/m2 if I want to get to attribute m3 in 'c' I will write: 2) ../../../b/c/m3 Attribute m4 in 'd' will be: 3) ../../m4 My concept of aquisition is a method that automagically appends the correct numbers of '../' untils it finds the first first occurence of the first directory for me :-) so if I want to do the three examples above via aquisition I would just write: 1) b/m2 or b.m2 (in dot notation) 2) b/c/m3 or b.c.m3 3) m4 Hope that helps. regards Max M