I know, bad form responding to one's-own post, but I did figure it out and thought other newbies might find it useful... The first (trivial) problem was that I had a typo (dtml-call instead of dtml-var) which prevented the content-type from displaying. "type" "<dtml-var "getContentType()">" The creator/owner attribute can be got at by going through the get_local_roles method then searching for a value that has "Owner" in it, and copying the corresponding key. I'm sure my dtml is atrocious, but hey, I just learned it this afternoon :) . "owner" "<dtml-in expr="get_local_roles()"><dtml-let temp=sequence-item><dtml-if expr="temp and 'Owner' in temp"><dtml-var sequence-key></dtml-if></dtml-let></dtml-in>" Enjoy all, Mike