I have created a NewsItem ZClass for encapsulating updates on my research for my collaborators to view. NewsItem is subclassed from ZObjectManager, can contain only DTML methods and images, and should possess a number of properties including the "date". The problem is that /Products/NewsItemProduct/NewsItemClass/propertysheets/common/NewsItemProperties will not allow me to add a "date" property of type date and leave it blank. Ideally, I would like this property to default (ie. automatically initialize) to the current datetime. How does one achieve this? (My guess is that I give it a dummy value in the class definition and then set it in the constructor method?). This raises the question: does every object instance have a creation datetime even though it doesn't explicitly appear on the Properties tab, and if so, is this value available in a DTML method. On an unrelated note, how can I make each instance of NewsItem's index_html method autmatically visible in the Contents tab and available for editing? Any help is much appreciated. Darran. P.S. Any commentary and the benefits/pitfalls of the Class I propose are most welcome. -- Darran Edmundson [Darran.Edmundson@anu.edu.au]