OK, Here's the story. I have several cases in which I'd like to have a horizontal bar. So, I defined a DTML method at the top of the hierarchy named Banner_Bar_Generic. This works in isolation. Then, I have a DTML method named linkHome that generates a relative link containing a sufficient number of "../" entries to take the user back to the top of the site. This also works in isolation, but oddly enough, only when called as <dtml-var linkHome>, and not as <dtml-var "linkHome">; the latter apparently has problems passing PARENTS or REQUEST. linkHier (not shown; also works in isolation and has an implementation similar to linkHome) generates a strong showing where the person is in the site; ie "Air Capital Linux Users Group: Information: Free Software", in a Yahoo fashion. Now, the question. I want to put a top bar on each page, containing these sorts of links. So, I figure I ought to define a Banner_Bar_Top, implemented in terms of Banner_Bar_Generic. However, I can't figure out how to pass along the proper strings; I always get a Zope error. Here's my latest attempt at this. Also below is the code for the other DTML methods. Any suggestions are welcome! *** Banner_Bar_Top: <dtml-with REQUEST> <dtml-with PARENTS> <dtml-with "_.namespace(StopAt='ACLUG')"> <dtml-var "Banner_Bar_Generic( ltext='<FONT FACE=' + 'helv,helvetica,arial' + '>'+ linkHier + '</FONT>', rtext='<A HREF=' + linkHome + '><FONT COLOR=#FFFFFF>Home</FONT></A>', bgcolor='#9C0000')"> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> *** Banner_Bar_Generic: <dtml-comment> Arguments are: ltext -- text for left side rtext -- text for right side bgcolor -- background color </dtml-comment> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%" ALIGN=center CELLSPACING="0" BGCOLOR="<dtml-var bgcolor>"> <TR> <dtml-comment>If no right text, align to center.</dtml-comment> <dtml-if rtext> <TD ALIGN=left> <dtml-else> <TD ALIGN=center> </dtml-if> <FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF"><dtml-var ltext></FONT> <dtml-if rtext> <TD ALIGN=right> <FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF"><dtml-var rtext></FONT> <dtml-else> <!-- No right text defined --> </dtml-if> </TABLE> *** linkHome: <dtml-comment><dtml-in "PARENTS"> Item: '<dtml-var "PARENTS[_['sequence-index']].id">'<BR> </dtml-in> </dtml-comment> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('InsertStr', '../')"> <dtml-in "PARENTS"><dtml-if "PARENTS[_['sequence-index']].id != StopAt"><dtml-var InsertStr><dtml-else><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('InsertStr', '')"></dtml-if></dtml-in> Thanks, John Goerzen -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The 60,733,058th prime number is 1,205,825,459.