Hi all, I'm seeing a weird case of acquisition going on that I don't really understand. From my point of view, what I'm seeing is that a a high-level folder's properties are overriding its children's. This is an oversimplification, however, and I suspect the problem is in the details: This is occuring within a product. The product defines two folderish-objects "Narya" and "Narya-Topic". Normally, a tree of "Narya-Topic" objects exists below "Narya". The "Narya-Topic" objects have a property called "banner", which is also defined by "Narya" (ostensibly to provide a default, even though that isn't what's happening). Let's just consider one Narya object "Narya" with one child Narya-Topic object "Tomobiki": Narya `- Tomobiki Inside Tomobiki there are DTMLFile objects, which include a DTMLFile method defined in Narya (called "navbar"). The "forum_bannernavbar" object uses the value of "banner" to determine its appearance. Now if I set the Narya property "banner" to, say, "ataru_jpg" and I set the Tomobiki property to, say, "lum_jpg", navbar uses "ataru_jpg". Narya (banner='ataru_jpg') `- Tomobiki (banner='lum_jpg') forum_bannernavbar (banner == 'ataru_jpg') If I then *delete* the property "banner" from Narya, the navbar in Tomobiki now (correctly) shows "lum_jpg". Narya (banner undefined) `- Tomobiki (banner='lum_jpg') forum_bannernavbar (banner == 'lum_jpg') In other words, the property of Narya is shadowing the property of its child Tomobiki. Inserting reporting code into the DTMLFile objects, I see that the DTMLFile objects inside (defined within) Tomobiki have the value I expect ("lum_jpg"). The problem occurs in calling forum_bannernavbar, which then thinks banner="ataru_jpg" -- presumeably it is putting its "container" ahead of its "context". BTW, It doesn't appear to matter how I define the Narya property -- I've defined it in the product as well as eliminating it and adding it through the ZMI. I get the same results either way. Now, assuming this is the intended behavior, can anyone explain why? I have a suspicion I might be able to solve this with a cleverly conceived dtml-with inside forum_bannernavbar, but I don't know what to put in it. Thanks! Terry (BTW, full source of Narya is in my CVS at SourceForge: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/spacelift/ this email addresses code in Narya.py, Topic.py, dtml/Narya/*.dtml, dtml/Topic/*.dtml). -- ------------------------------------------------------ Terry Hancock hancock@anansispaceworks.com Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com P.O. Box 60583 Pasadena, CA 91116-6583 ------------------------------------------------------