I posted this Friday, but it seems to have gotten lost in the ether. Appologies if it shows up twice (checked the archives and it's not there so...). Hello all, FWIW, I've copied the UserDB product (1.3.0) from the old Zope.org site and created a package. It's cataloged now, but the URL is http://www.zope.org/Members/otto/userdb. I've downloaded the beta ZDiscussions product (very nice, BTW) and it has brought up a question about ZCatalog and classes that inherit from it. If an object inherits from ZCatalog does that mean it's sub-objects are only cataloged there? For example, if I create a ZDiscussion topic how can I have a site wide search interface that will also search the ZDiscussion items in that topic. I've done some experimenting and I've found out I can have a ZCatalog catalog the discussion itself, which is somewhat useful... but there doesn't seem to be a way to catalog the items outside the discussion. Wouldn't it make more sense for ZDiscussion to not inherit from ZCatalog but allow provide a search interface limited to searching discussion? It should be easy to limit the search based on meta-type, but I don't see a way to limit it to a single discussion. Also, to allow the possibility of keeping the discussion out of the default catalog it should be possible to create a new catalog as a sub-object of the ZDiscussion. On the other hand would it make sense (or is is possible already) to "chain" ZCatalogs? Just a few thoughts... :) My second question is on AUTHENTICATED_USER. What properties does it have? The DTML User's Guide says "This object currently provides no public attributes" but the source for ZDiscussions clearly uses some functions and attributes like getName() and 'email'. Is this something that UserDB gives you? (I haven't had the chance to play around with that much, yet.) TIA. -Otto. ______________________________________________________________________ Get Visto.com! Private groups, event calendars, email, and much more. Visto.com. Life on the Dot. Check it out @ http://www.visto.com/info