Make sure that you set up the indexes and metadata entries in the Catalog for the method and/or property names you would like indexed, or cached in metadata columns, respectively; then, make sure your ZClass was first inheriting from CatalogAware. Also, make sure you are reindexing the object upon object construction, and edit as well... That should be it... If this works, you should be able to access instance objects' entries in the catalog with your query form via <dtml-in Catalog>, and you can use the metadata column name in <dtml-var> inside the dtml-in for your search summary content, or (slower) use Catalog.getObject() to get the referenced object directly (i.e. <dtml-var "Catalog.getObject().id">)... good luck... Sean -----Original Message----- From: Orietta Barbari [mailto:obarbari@ehive.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:52 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Newbie Question : Problems with Automatic Cataloging of ZClasses I wonder if someone could help me. I have been trying to create zclasses whose objects get automatically catalogued. I have followed the tutorial in the Zope Book (Chapter 9 - 'Automatic Cataloging' section) and it all seems to work correctly. When I go and view the entries in the catalog however, only the date gets registered in the index, and date and absolute_url gets registered as metatypes - no other properties appear to be registered. I have tried other tutorials and HowTos but cannot seem to find an effective way of updating a catalogue with all the objects properties. Could someone give me a clue _______________________________________________ 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 )