Usually, I complain that problem reports are too terse. But, your's was very big, such that I did not read it carefully. It is very difficult to get it right for everyone. Just a remark: SQL methods do *NOT* look at the DTML namespace *AT ALL*, just at REQUEST (or the expliciitly passed keyword arguments). Thus, "dtml-with", "dtml-let" and friends are all ineffective with respect to ZSQL methods. May be, that explains your problem. May be not, as I am not sure, that you need the values indeed inside a ZSQL method. I can assure you: "dtml-with" does work. Dieter