First off, thanks to everyone for answers to problems I had trouble explaining..... This has been extremely painful to understand so far. Anyway, the query code I have below works up to the return.... It returns the correct stylesheet, but I need to know how to insert a standard template in the Style Sheet ZClass (based on DTMLDocument) so I dont have to edit/add the view every time I create an instance. (manage_clone, manage_add, DTMLFile ?????) Looking into DTMLDocument, I see how to do it in python, but I dont understand how to apply that to python script..... Can someone show me an example of how to do this? WPH My code so far is below: --------- --------- Python code used to create the Style Sheet Instance --------- # Add a new instance of the Style Sheet ZClass request = context.REQUEST from DateTime import DateTime ts=DateTime().strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S') id=str(ts) instance = container.StyleSheet.createInObjectManager(id, request) ################################################################## ### I would assume I need to add the Style Sheet document_src here ################################################################## # ***************************************************************** # Perform any initialization of the new instance here. # For example, to update a property sheet named "Basic" from the # form values, uncomment the following line of code: instance.propertysheets.Base.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.Custom.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.a.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.body.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.h1.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.h2.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.h3.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.h4.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.h5.manage_editProperties(request) instance.propertysheets.p.manage_editProperties(request) # ***************************************************************** if redirect: # redirect to the management view of the instance's container request.RESPONSE.redirect(instance.aq_parent.absolute_url() + '/manage_main') else: # If we aren't supposed to redirect (ie, we are called from a script) # then just return the ZClass instance to the caller return instance --------- --------- Python Code used for the building the public view.... ---------- DATE=DateTime().dd() MONTH=DateTime().Month() DAY=DateTime().Day() YEAR=DateTime().year() ## Build a Date/Time Output to Match variations on "title" String Formats in Style Sheet Properties DAYMONTHDATEYEAR="%s %s %s %s" % (DAY, MONTH, DATE, YEAR) MONTHDATEYEAR=" %s %s %s" % (MONTH, DATE, YEAR) DAYMONTHYEAR="%s %s %s" % (DAY, MONTH, YEAR) DAYMONTHDATE="%s%s%s " % (DAY, MONTH, DATE) DAYDATEYEAR="%s %s %s" % (DAY, DATE, YEAR) MONTHDATE=" %s %s " % (MONTH, DATE) DAYMONTH="%s %s " % (DAY, MONTH) DAYDATE="%s %s " % (DAY, DATE) DATEYEAR=" %s %s" % (DATE, YEAR) DAYYEAR="%s %s" % (DAY, YEAR) MONTHYEAR=" %s %s" % (MONTH, YEAR) MONTHKEY=" %s " % (MONTH) DATEKEY=" %s " % (DATE) DAYKEY="%s " % (DAY) YEARKEY=" %s" % (YEAR) DEFAULT="DEFAULT" ## Look for Day Year (ie - Monday 2003) in Style Sheet (a DTML Document subclass) ## NOTE THAT StyleBook is a container (subclass of Folder) for stylesheet in container.StyleBook.objectValues(['Style Sheet']): if stylesheet.title == DAYYEAR: return stylesheet() #### Here I am returning the proper stylesheet instance - :) #### But how do I template the document_src in the Style Sheet ZClass #### to keep from having to rewrite it for every instance I create? #### (like the default view in DTML Document)