Hi there, I want to have a method which returns a list of all properties of an object. The problem: when I write a Method (DTML or Python) I always get the properties of the container of the method, but not the ones of the object I applied the method. I used propertyMap, propertyIds and propertyItems. Example: Say xxx is an instance of a ZClass and resides in the root directory. http://localhost:8080/xxx/propertyMap will return a map of all properties of the root folder not of the xxx object. Say you define a method yyy which access concrete properties of the object with dtml-var, say ''who" and "when", then it will access these properties if they exist and fail if one of these doesn't. Ok. I found it, I have to access each propertysheet, but if I try something like <dtml-in "propertysheets"> <dtml-var propertyMap> </dtml-in> the login window with username/password is presented, but whatever I type I get an authorization error, so I think there is a private properysheet, isn't it? So how can I get a list of all properties defined in an object? I'll answer the question myself, but I think it is a bit complex. The philosophy is to write nearly everything in Python???? External (unrestricted) Pyhton script (like id=getprops, module=getprops, function=getprops) : def getprops(self): x=[] for y in self.propertysheets: for z in y.propertyItems(): x.append(z) return x Now a DTML method for displaying this (e.g. as printproperties): <dtml-var standard_html_header> <h2>Properties of <dtml-var title_or_id></h2> <p> <ul> <dtml-in getprops> <li><dtml-var sequence-key>: <dtml-var sequence-item> </dtml-in> </ul> regards, Erny