I've just started to try this out ... I set the variable thus... <dtml-call "SESSION.set('muserid',LOGIN)"> but later on when I try and use this session variable ... <INPUT maxLength="30" name="LOGIN" size="30" TYPE="TEXT" value=" <dtml-if "SESSION.has_key('muserid')"> <dtml-var "SESSION['muserid']"> </dtml-if>" /> It dies with ... Error Type: NameError Error Value: upper with the following traceback File D:\zope2\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_Util.py, line 335, in eval (Object: SESSION['muserid']) (Info: SESSION) File <string>, line 0, in ? File D:\zope2\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_Util.py, line 161, in careful_getitem File d:\zope2\lib\python\Products\SQLSession\SQLSession.py, line 99, in __getitem__ File d:\zope2\lib\python\Products\SQLSession\SQLSession.py, line 389, in sqlattr (Object: NoBrains) NameError: (see above) ------- Regards, Graham Chiu gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz http://www.compkarori.com/dynamo - The Homebuilt Dynamo http://www.compkarori.com/dbase - The dBase bulletin