On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Paul Schreiber wrote:

--- "R. David Murray" <bitz@bitdance.com> wrote:

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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Paul Schreiber wrote:

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<dtml-call "manage_changeProperties('eggs', 'blue')">

<dtml-call "manage_changeProperties({'eggs': 'blue'})">

This: <b><!--#var eggs --></b> <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties({'eggs': 'blue'})">

<p><!--#var eggs -->

results in: <b>green</b>

<p>green

did i miss something?

Hmm. That should have worked. You could try manage_changeProperties(eggs='blue') as an alternative, but the dictionary way should have worked. Did you check the property after the method had executed? Perhaps the change is not visible until the method completes, although I would not expect that to be the case...unless 'eggs' exists "closer" in the name space stack as a variable than it does as a property on the object, in which case the second dtml-var would be picking up the variable value but the manage_changeProperties will have affected property of the object it was called on. --RDM