I am no expert but three ideas come immediately to mind. You need to get the object the id refers to before you can request its title. 1. I am pretty sure I have seen a method called something like an abbreviation for get object by id 2. use the portal_catalog 3. search the source code for title, and see what other things do with it or how they get it. ____________________________________________ Peter Millar -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org] On Behalf Of Cliff Fogle Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 2004 10:54 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Getting title attribute given objectid First off...I just started playing with Zope today... This seems like it should be easy, but I've been searching google and the archives all day to no avail. I have an object ID and would like to display the object title as the content of a drop down menu. As it is now I can only display the ID: </select> <select name="querytype"> <span tal:define="ids root/Database/querytype/objectIds" tal:repeat="id ids" tal:omit-tag=""> <option tal:attributes="value id" tal:content="id">Item from sql method</option> </span> </select> What I want though is for the only the value to be the ID and the content to be the title. So something like this (which does not work): </select> <select name="querytype"> <span tal:define="ids root/Database/querytype/objectIds" tal:repeat="id ids" tal:omit-tag=""> <option tal:attributes="value id" tal:content="id/title">Item from sql method</option> </span> </select> I'm going to go get a good book on Zope and read it tonight. But if that doesn't help can anyone here help me out? Thanks Cliff Fogle Network Engineer Ofoto, Inc.