Hi all - I've been through the books and searched howtos, but can't find the trick. In short, I'm looking for the sytax to use to reference a file name that has an extension so that the extension is treated as a continuation of the filename and not treated as an attribute of a resulting non-existant object due to truncating the extension. I am also trying to manage acquisition selectively To put this is context, my goal is to create a list of links by looping through folders and their subfolders recursively. For each folder, if it has an icon to display, display it. If not list its title_or_id. Here is the non-functional code I would like to implement. dtml method: listuploads (found in the acquisition hierarchy) <dtml-in expr="uploadedpages.objectValues('Folder')" sort=id> # loop through subfolders of current context <dtml-with id only> # do not accidentally acquire the pageicon.gif of a parent folder <a href sequence-var-url> # make whatever is displayed a link to that folder's index_html <dtml-if expr="'pageicon.gif'"> # test the existance of a 'pageicon.gif' file in this folder <dtml-var pageicon.gif> # if found, display it <dtml-else> <dtml-var title_or_id> # if not found, display folder's title </dtml-if> <dtml-if expr="objectValues('Folder')"> # test if the current folder has subfolders <dtml-var listuploads> # if so, call this method recursively for the subfolders </dtml-if> </a> </dtml-with> </dtml-in> Questions - 1. Syntax for <dtml-if expr="pageicon.gif"> 2. How to acquire the listuploads method with a 'with only' in effect. Use another with pointing to its explicit URL? Use a path? like <dtml-var methodlibrary.listuploads> where methodlibrary is a folder object of the root? 3. Instead of the 'with only', is there a way to limit acquistion of pageicon.gif from the parent erroneously resulting in true in the if test? I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I could not find it. All suggestions appreciated ... Thanks, Gary