my guess is that your index.html is a dtmlDocument... Make it a dtmlMethod, and things will probably work.. Documents have their own namespace, so you are looking for folders inside index.html (and not finding any, of course).. if you need to have index.hmtl as a document, you could try (untested) <dtml-in expr="PARENTS[1].objectValues('Folder')"> good luck -- Geir Bækholt web-developer/designer geirh@funcom.com http://www.funcom.com on Thursday, November 16, 2000 Lee Reilly CS1997 wrote : LRC> Hi, LRC> I'm going through the examples in Chapter 5 of the Zope book and am LRC> having some problems. For those of you familiar with it, it is the 'Zope LRC> Zoo' example. LRC> Can anyone help me out? LRC> 1 - I create a DTML method called navigation as follows: LRC> <ul> LRC> <dtml-in expr="objectValues('Folder')"> LRC> <li><a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a><br></li> LRC> </dtml-in> LRC> </ul> LRC> 2 - On viewing this method it works fine - a hyperlink to all LRC> sub-folders appears in the browser. LRC> 3 - I add '<dtml-var navigation>' into my standard_html_header so it LRC> reads: LRC> <html> LRC> <head> LRC> <title>ZAPHOD - zopetastic!</title> LRC> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> LRC> </head> LRC> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" LINK="#000099" VLINK="#555555"> LRC> <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"> LRC> If your name is Lee then click <a href="manage">here</a> to LRC> login.</font> LRC> <br> LRC> <dtml-var navigation> LRC> 4 - On viewing index.html (containing header & footer) everything except LRC> the navigation method appears. Viewing the source of index.html reveals LRC> that the <ul> tags are created... just no <li> elements. LRC> 5 - The HTML is fine... all tags closed & in te right place. LRC> Can anyone see a problem? LRC> Thanks in advance for any replies. My appologies also for such a long LRC> post. LRC> - Best regards, LRC> Lee Reilly LRC> _______________________________________________ LRC> Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org LRC> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope LRC> ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** LRC> (Related lists - LRC> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce LRC> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )