Hi there and thanks much for reading this. I'm sure I'm missing some fundamental point, but I've looked and haven't been able to find help in the documentation I have. A good example would be helpful, if anyone can recommend one. Basically, I've made a ZClass, called SiteSection, in my product. It has base classes of Folder, CatalogAware, and DTML Document. In a later version, I'll probably remove the DTML Document base class - I'm not sure why I included it. The ZClass has a property sheet (also called SiteSection) with these properties: title, LastModifiedBy, InSite, MainTextIsDTML, ContainedObjectsArePages, NavOrder, NavShortDescription, and NewMenuSection. (Please let me know if I shouldn't define title here). Also, creating an instance of SiteSection also creates a DTML Document inside the new instance with the ID of MainText. I have created a custom management view, currently called SiteSection_edit, which should allow the user to set most of the properties in the PropertySheet, as well as update the text in the MainText object. The form calls a Python script, included below, which should actually do the updating. I'm able to update the contents MainText successfully using these commands: try: # in case MainText doesn't exist - is there another way? context.manage_addDTMLMethod('MainText','') except: nop = 0; context.MainText.manage_edit(request['MainText'], '') I'm trying to set the other properties individually using manage_changeProperties, for example: context.manage_changeProperties(NavShortDescription=request['NavShortDescription']) I think I can do multiple properties at once, but was trying this form first. Oddly, the title property (and MainText) are the only properties that are being set. In its current form (more below on that), the script doesn't give an error, but neither does it update any of the other properties. I'm sure I'm doing several things wrong - can someone please correct me? Here's the complete Python script: ==================== SiteSection_edit_general ===================== # Import a standard function, and get the HTML request and response objects. from Products.PythonScripts.standard import html_quote request = container.REQUEST RESPONSE = request.RESPONSE # ----- update MainText object; create it if it doesn't exist try: context.manage_addDTMLMethod('MainText','') except: nop = 0; context.MainText.manage_edit(request['MainText'], '') # ----- ContainedObjectsArePages context.manage_changeProperties(ContainedObjectsArePages=request['ContainedObjectsArePages']) # ----- NavShortDescription context.manage_changeProperties(NavShortDescription=request['NavShortDescription']) # ----- NewMenuSection # why is it failing here? # context.manage_changeProperties(NewMenuSection=request['NewMenuSection']) # ----- title context.manage_changeProperties(title=request['title']) RESPONSE.redirect(context.absolute_url() + '/SiteSection_editform_general') return ===================== end Python script ============================ Also, for the sake of completeness and in case the problem is in the form, here is the pertinent section of SiteSection_editform_general, which invokes the above Python script: =================== SiteSection_editform_general =================== <Form action="<dtml-var absolute_url>/" method="post"> <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><TR><td> <dtml-var body_font_tag> Title: <input type="text" name="title:string" size="35" value="<dtml-if title><dtml-var title></dtml-if>"> <p><dtml-if MainTextIsDTML>DTML Code:<dtml-else>Structured Text (<a href="<dtml-var "structured_text_help.absolute_url()">">help</a>)</dtml-if> <br><textarea name="MainText:text" rows="6" cols="50" wrap="virtual"><dtml-if MainText><dtml-var MainText></dtml-if></textarea> <br>Contents (at right) display: <input type="radio" name="ContainedObjectsArePages:boolean"<dtml-if ContainedObjectsArePages> checked="1"</dtml-if>>as Pages <input type="radio" name="ContainedObjectsArePages:boolean"<dtml-unless ContainedObjectsArePages> checked="1"</dtml-unless>>as Page Sections <p>Menu Description: <br><textarea name="NavShortDescription:text" rows="3" cols="50" wrap="virtual"><dtml-if NavShortDescription><dtml-var NavShortDescription></dtml-if></textarea> <br><input type="checkbox" name="NewMenuSection:boolean" <dtml-if NewMenuSection> checked="1"</dtml-if>>Starts New Menu Section <input name="SiteSection_edit_general:method" type="submit" class="form-element" value="Save Changes"> </form> ======================== end DTML code ============================= Any help would be most appreciated! Many thanks, Am Thomas --- Virtue of the Small http://virtueofthesmall.com