Not a how-to , but a quick summary of something that works at least.. should get you started enough, so the Zope-help will start being useful... the Data-mangers and related items you need should be instantiated by default in Zope2.5 at least, so you dont have to add anything by hand.. i quit using DTML the second ZPT1.0 was out , so i have no examples there , but in ZPT , i list all session contents like this : <div class="debugdata" tal:condition="exists:request/SESSION"> <p><b>SESSION contains:</b></p> <p tal:repeat="keys python:request.SESSION.keys()"><span tal:replace="keys" /> : '<span tal:replace="python:request.SESSION[keys]" />' </p> </div> and usually add stuff to the session in a python script , this way : SESSION = context.REQUEST.SESSION SESSION.set('somekey',somevariable) i am not certain , but i think you have to establish the session by calling: context.browser_id_manager.getBrowserId(create=1) ... that would be just: browser_id_manager.getBrowserId(create=1) in DTML on or about, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, we have reason to believe that Schmidt, Allen J. wrote something along the lines of : SAJ> Nice, but not very helpful I found. A simple HowTo would have helped more. SAJ> We have been using SQLSession for a while and its been working well but we SAJ> feel there may be issues with Squid and ZEO and many ZEO clients on SAJ> different boxes. And, se figured since the new Sessioning stuff is built SAJ> in, maybe now is a good time to switch. SAJ> So, the questions: SAJ> Which of the session-type things need to be added where? Data Managers, ID SAJ> managers, Transient containers?? SAJ> In SQLSession, I *dtml-call Session* at the top of every page that will use SAJ> sessions (in standard_header) and then use *dtml-call SAJ> SESSION.set(name,value)* and *dtml-var SESSION['name']* whenever I want to SAJ> set or get something from the session. SAJ> Does anyone have specifics on how to do this simplest of things with the new SAJ> Sessioning tools? SAJ> Thanks!!!! SAJ> -Allen SAJ> -----Original Message----- SAJ> From: Geir Bækholt [mailto:geirh@funcom.com] SAJ> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:22 AM SAJ> To: Marc Ende SAJ> Cc: zope@zope.org SAJ> Subject: Re: [Zope] Session Mgmt. with Session Id Manager SAJ> The help interface inside Zope actually has nice documentation on SAJ> sessions.... SAJ> :-) SAJ> hth SAJ> on or about, Wednesday, April 10, 2002, we have reason to believe that Marc SAJ> Ende wrote something along the lines of : ME>> Hi there, ME>> I've tried to use Sessions on my zope-site for authentication SAJ> features... ME>> Is there any good documentation about the session data manager and ME>> the browser id manager. I've been searching the whole night but I've SAJ> only ME>> found sql - sessionmanager, happy... etc. etc.... But I haven't found a SAJ> good ME>> docu about the included one. (Even the ZopeBook doesn't tell much about ME>> sessions) ME>> cheers ME>> marc -- Geir Bækholt web-developer geirh@funcom.com funcom oslo | webdev-team