Howdy, Yes, you can call another object outside your "tree". Example: lets say you have /folder1/folder1a/item1 and /folder2/item2 and you want to access item2 from item1 in dtml you need to put item2 into the context: <dtml-with "folder2.item2"> <p> This puts item2 from folder2 into context... any dtml-var calls will first be applied to item2 until the closing with tag </p> title of item2 = <dtml-var title> </dtml-with> with the "folder2.item2" Zope starts walking up the tree until it finds folder2 then walks down to find item2 hope this helps Tom "Vincent Stoessel" wrote:

Hello All, I have starting testing Zope as a potential CMS for some production websites. I think I understand the basic of to create and edit pages in the Zope system. I haver a few questions for those more experieced with this system. I am very familiar with php so I need someone to translate these concepts for me.

include_path : I understand that you can automatically include objects into pages by referencing their id, I also

understand

that Zope automatically searches up the parent chain till it finds a

matching object. But what if I want to include something outside of the tree? or just wanted a central repositories of object that I wanted to be able access from anywhere.

i.e

cars colors | | ford red | toyota

if cars and colors are on seperate branches, how an I "cross" the brnches to access objects.

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