You have an aquisition/namespace problem. If <dtml-var navigation> is used in a document like an index_html dtml-document, It tries to find the objecValues in that document. But a document is not a folder. So the list will be empty. So is your index_html a document or method? Try changing it to a method, as a method doesn't have it's own namespace and will look in the nearest aquired namespace. Hopefully a folder. Or use a more direct approach bu telling what folder you want to see objectValues from. <dtml-in expr="someFolder.objectValues('Folder')"> <li><a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a><br></li> </dtml-in> Regards Max M -----Original Message----- From: Lee Reilly CS1997 [mailto:lreilly@cs.strath.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 2:41 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] chapter 5 Zope book - problems with the examples Hi, I'm going through the examples in Chapter 5 of the Zope book and am having some problems. For those of you familiar with it, it is the 'Zope Zoo' example. Can anyone help me out? 1 - I create a DTML method called navigation as follows: <ul> <dtml-in expr="objectValues('Folder')"> <li><a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a><br></li> </dtml-in> </ul> 2 - On viewing this method it works fine - a hyperlink to all sub-folders appears in the browser. 3 - I add '<dtml-var navigation>' into my standard_html_header so it reads: <html> <head> <title>ZAPHOD - zopetastic!</title> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" LINK="#000099" VLINK="#555555"> <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"> If your name is Lee then click <a href="manage">here</a> to login.</font> <br> <dtml-var navigation> 4 - On viewing index.html (containing header & footer) everything except the navigation method appears. Viewing the source of index.html reveals that the <ul> tags are created... just no <li> elements. 5 - The HTML is fine... all tags closed & in te right place. Can anyone see a problem? Thanks in advance for any replies. My appologies also for such a long post. - Best regards, Lee Reilly _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )