Ok, I 'simplified'? my code of a few hours ago and got this External Method: testDocTemplate.py import DocumentTemplate from Acquisition import Implicit def doit(self): template_str = '''<table> <tr><td bgcolor=silver colspan=2>This data is being dynamically generated from a database</td></tr> <dtml-in "info_from_email(email=content)"> <tr><td><dtml-var Title> <dtml-var Surname></td></tr> </dtml-in> </table>''' template = DocumentTemplate.HTML(template_str) return template(content='hirst') (1) info_from_email is a ZSQL method *in the same folder* as the external method itself. (2) Ideally I want to get a DTML document in the folder heirarchy, ie template_str = str(self.Actors.RENDER.modulecontributor) On clicking 'Try It' I get: <!-- Error type: NameError Error value: info_from_email --> ...... <!-- Traceback (innermost last): File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publis h.py, line 256, in publish_module File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publis h.py, line 161, in publish File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply .py, line 154, in mapply (Object: doit) File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publis h.py, line 98, in call_object (Object: doit) File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/Products/External Method/ExternalMethod.py, line 259, in __call__ (Object: doit) (Info: ((<Folder instance at 59f4c8>,), {}, None)) File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/Products/External Method/ExternalMethod.py, line 247, in __call__ (Object: doit) (Info: ((<Folder instance at 59f4c8>,), {}, None)) File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/Extensions/testDocTemplate.p y, line 16, in doit (Object: ElementWithAttributes) File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/ DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: <string>) File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/ DT_In.py, line 631, in renderwob (Object: info_from_email(email=content)) File /home/nnle/Zope-2.0.0b1-solaris-2.6-sparc/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/ DT_Util.py, line 315, in eval (Object: info_from_email(email=content)) File <string>, line 0, in ? NameError: (see above) --> ...and I'm totally baffled. I'm now I'm off to the pub to befuddle my head even more..... tone ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project http://nle.ncl.ac.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2