Charlie Wilkinson writes: After RTFMing and flailing at DTML all night, I'm about stumped. No pun intended. I'm trying to use dtml-tree to create a selective menu of objects based on whether or not the object has an "add_to_menu" property. I've pretty much figured out that I need a wrapper around objectValues that will filter out the objects that don't have the "add_to_menu" property. This wrapper would be called with dtml-tree's "branches" attribute. I'm trying to do this wrapper in a DTML method and I've gotten all the way to where I have to return a list of "actual objects", so says the DTML Quick Reference. Is there someone who could 'splain to me how to build a list of objects in DTMLese? Here's what I have so far (obviously not working): <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('ret', '')"> <dtml-in "objectValues()" sort=id> <dtml-if "_.has_key('add_to_menu')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('ret', ret + ' ' + _['sequence-item'])"> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> <dtml-return "_.string.split(ret)"> [rh] Try (yes, this is tested): <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('ret', '')"> <dtml-in "objectValues()" sort=id> <dtml-if "_.has_key('add_to_menu')"> <dtml-call "ret.append(id)"> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> <dtml-return ret> Two notes: - the string approach is an unnecessary hack. I changed it to standard Python list idiom - if you append sequence-item it will include your whole method, which presumably is not what you want in your tree. Use id. HTH Rik