Fantastic! This was exactly the missing key, Tim. Thanks very much! I think this was the last major technical gap I had before I can complete this application. This list is wonderful. You are most helpful. One more reason to keep using Zope and Python. At 02:33 PM 4/23/2002 +0100, tim wrote:

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c = REQUEST.get('clearing_id','') context.manage_addFolder(c) # this works # Now what I want to do is add a document to the folder # If I include a hard-coded value for the folder name I just created as a test, it works # But this doesn't: context.c.manage_addDocument('NewDoc')

I think you should be able to do either of (both untested):

getattr(context, c).manage_addDocument('NewDoc') context[c].manage_addDocument('NewDoc')

As far as I understand, your version doesn't work because you are telling python/zope to look for the c string object that is an attribute of context, instead of telling it to get hold of the attribute of context that is called whatever str(c) returns.

hth

tim