Hi Andre, Andre Meyer wrote:

Hi Tino

The point is that a .zpt file needs to be processed in order to render the TAL:tags into pure html. Using ImageFile to read in the zpt file works, but then it is not processed, thus ignores any TAL tags. When I

Thats pretty obvious :-) You would not even try that :)

use PageTemplateFile to read in the zpt file I get an error when it should be displayed. I have no idea why.

We need the error. And did you test your ZPT Source with PageTemplate in ZMI? Maybe its easyer to debug there. Also compare with products that also use ZPT files for their ZMI. Regards Tino