Hi James, If you sort by modification time in reverse order and set batchsize to 1 then I think you'll get the latest instance. Example: <dtml-in "Catalog.searchResults()" sort=bobobase_modification_time reverse size=1> ... </dtml-in> I'm not sure it's the best way, though. Alexandre At 12:00 27/01/2000 -0800, you wrote:

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:55:33 -0500 To: zope@zope.org From: "James W. Howe" <jwh@allencreek.com> Subject: [Zope] ZCatalog Search Question

Is there a simple (or even a not so simple) way to ask a ZCatalog to return the most recent instance of a particular meta_type? Suppose that I create several objects with a meta_type of 'Article'. I would like to be able to retrieve the last one created whether it was today or 2 months ago.

Thanks.

James W. Howe mailto:jwh@allencreek.com Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html Ann Arbor, MI 48103