Right now, i would like to solve some doubts in this area. I have a few folders eg. folders A, B, C ) in my website and each folder has an acl_users folder storing the users allowed to access the particular folder. Also I have a acl_users folder at my root to contain all the users which i have registered for this website. Yes, the users in this acl_users folder are the users in A,B ,C. Using cookiecrumbler, i have a login form for the user to login by checking against this acl_users at root. My questions lie here: 1. After logging in, the user will click on the link ( which is folder A), which contains a form which the authorized user can select the conditions and save this report. 2. I understand that using ZODB (outside of zope framework) can do the job in storing the variables. But how do I associate this user with the variables? What is the code used to find out what the login user at folder A is? 3. It seems that using zodb, that's very few how-tos within the zope framework itself especially when i need to do a persistent data storing for a user. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm