Hi Dan, Dan Shafer wrote:

This may just be a case of over-engineering. But I'd like to see if I can learn how to fix this anyway.

I have a Zope application. When using it, people we call facilitators create a new folder for a particular client interaction. Then as they progress through the structured interaction, each phase creates a new document whose only contents are a call to a DTML method that displays objects' contents. Each of these documents has a set of properties associated with it.

So the structure is:

Folder Document (with properties) <dtml method call>

Now, I need to write a routine that iterates over all the folders in a given directory, examines the document called [caseID]info to determine if one of its properties (coach_id) matches the name of the currently AUTHENTICATED_USER. If so, display the folder as an HREF (that I have working fine) and if not, skip it.

I keep running into syntactical issues. Dylan Reinhardt has already switched me on to the nearly undocumented prefix attribute of the dtml-in construct, so I've at least gotten past that problem. But drilling down another level in the object hierarchy is proving syntactically...well...challenging.

Anyone got any ideas?

Yeah. Skip DTML and use a python script for that. Its more clean as you are writing python expressions anyway now. They are only more obscure during DTMLs magic behavior. Good luck Tino Wildenhain