Hi ALL: I am just starting to learn zope/plone and templates. I have a portal that uses plone templets and skins. My question is how I can HREF conditionally using TAL syntax. I defined a macro in my plone template file (*.pt file) like this: <p metal:define-macro="news_link"> <-- Just link the News Archive --> <a href="/my.portal.edu/news">News Archive </a> </p> But, as this macro is called form the the right_slots via the "properties Tab" for the CFM site object (eg. here/news_slot/macros/news_link), this link will display in all the pages in the right slot. But I don't want this link to be displayed when I am actually in that page itself (my.portal.edu/news). Note: "news" is a CMF portal action called by action "string: $portal_url/news" So the ideal code will be: If the current URL != $portal_url/news then <a href="/my.portal.edu/news">News Archive </a> else do nothing Here are my questions: 1. How to get the ID of an object (say "news" in this case so that I can conditionally suppress the HREF, so that if I am in the $portal_url/news page, the link will not display? 2. How can I use tal so that I don't have to hard code my portal URL path (like href="/my.portal.edu/news")? I want something like href="$portal_url/news"). 3. Any online ref/example of how to use the Tal/python scripts with ZOPE/CMF/Templates with small example will be helpful. Thanks, Gautam