Hello David Please reply to the list. In Zope.org a reply will not go the list, you have to make a reply all (and then delete the sender, so he doesn't get the mail twice). I was also experementing a lot with formulator, unfortunately, the documentation is not always so clear :-( , but it's open source :-)

The reason I used :string instead of :int as you suggested is

Make it an :int! I don't think, it works without. When you have a list as you put in your example: ABC, 1 DEF, 2 HIJ, 3 I really don't understang why not.

This is my Python function that builds the list: ---------------------------------------------------- #Return a list of staff ...

I always use Z SQL Methods. I have in the TALES tab in ITEMS something like: python:sql.language_codes_sql_py() where I call: for sql in container.sql.language_codes_sql(code=code): ... The first is a python script which calls the Z SQL Method (all in a folder sql). Unfortunately I wasn't able to call a Z SQL Method directly in the TALES/ITEM. Either it's a bug or my lack of knowledge. The reason why I'm using Z SQL Method is, that I've got all my SQL stuff together (I like that, I'm an RDBMS man).

Here is the question -- in the Formulator widget definition form, you can set three different values as DEFAULT:

1) PROPERTIES DEFAULT 2) TALES DEFAULT 3) OVERRIDE DEFAULT

1. This is o.k. when you're sure, the values are not changing. I put all the stuff at least in a code table ( because the values alway *will* change ;-) ) 2. This is the good place 3. Have you noticed, that formulator installs a help? When you're in the ZMI and press the help in the upper right corner, a help window with a help topic for formulator is opening: There you find "Formulator Field - Override": Note: the Override tab is being phased out in favor of the TALES tab.

The TALES default value needs to be a TAL statement. I am unsure how to reference (the syntax) a value in a variable (company_contact_id_selected) as a TAL statement. I would like to load the data value from the hidden field above -- which I called "company_contact_id_selected:string". Do you know the proper TAL syntax? In the one example I found it requires PYTHON:...

see above Regards Dieter