Hi! I tried asking a question about this yesterday, and failed miserably in describing my problem. I apologize for that. Please read on. I have taken pains to write a very clear explanation with a code sample and precise data. My basic question is this: I have code which is called from standard_html_footer. When that code was a DTML Method, I used this(). Now that this code is a PythonScript, how do I access the same object? "context" and "context.this()" do not work reliably. Read more for details. I have a DTML Method called "adminMenu". That method is called in standard_html_footer like so: "<dtml-var adminMenu>". It prints nothing for anonymous users... But if the user is authenticated, it prints a context-sensitive admin menu. If the user is viewing a DTML Document to which he has "write access", the admin menu prints a "Edit this document" link. There are various other options. For many of them, I have to know which object the user is viewing. This works fine. But the "adminMenu" DTML Method soon grew big and cumbersome. Last week, I decided to re-write it as a PythonScript.. The code is mostly a port (very similar), and is called the same way: "<dtml-var adminMenu>" from the standard_html_footer. Yet I am now having problems getting a hold of the object which the user is viewing. Specifically, "context" never seems to refer to DTML Documents. It seems to ignore them like it does DTML Methods. An example: I use the following code to get my "debugging" information: print " <B>File name:</B> %s<BR>" % (context.getId()) print " <B>File type:</B> %s<BR>" % (context.meta_type) With a Folder... viewing http://www.levinux.org/ (a Folder) <B>File name:</B> levinux<BR> <B>File type:</B> Folder<BR> So far so good... With a DTML Document... viewing http://www.levinux.org/liens.html (a DTML Document) <B>File name:</B> levinux<BR> <B>File type:</B> Folder<BR> This is not expected behavior. My tests seem to indicate that, context.getId() and context.meta_type yield the same result as context.this().getId() and context.this().meta_type. So I am stumped. I am running Zope 2.3.1b2 (binary release, python 1.5.2, linux2-x86) on a Mandrake 7.2 system. Thanks for reading me. I hope you can help. Cheers, Jérôme Loisel -- Jérôme Loisel, étudiant et webmestre Lévinux: GNU/Linux pour la communauté http://www.levinux.org/