Chris Ryland writes:
.... Now, the problem is, that if I put a certain property on the content file in this folder, it seems to be inherited by all subfolders' content files.
Is that true? No.
However, acquisition may trick you to find the "content" object in a much higher folder than you expect. Read "Containment before Context" in (e.g.) [...]
I just saw the document referred by Dieter for the first time. A little difficult to understand for a short question. So here is a short answer, how I did it - this tip came originally from Dieter as well, if I remember right: <dtml-if "myDoc.hasattr(aq_explicit,'attribute_name')"> myDoc itself has an attribute 'attribute_name' - it is not acquired. </dtml-if> Hope it helped. -- Lars Heber, mailto:Lars.Heber@t-systems.de T-Systems, debis Systemhaus GEI GmbH, Geschaeftsstelle Sachsen