I was rummaging about in Zope last night trying to figure out how I could find out the user name of the current user. Turns out, of course, to be pretty easy. But I would never have thought of it without the HowTo's help. I had tried using AuthenticedUser.getUserName() without success but when I changed to use the apparently automatically defined AUTHENTICATED_USER object, it worked. So two questions. 1. Do all of the Zope Classes have an equivalent object that I should use when I want to invoke their methods on the current instance? Or is this true only of objects passed via the REQUEST? 2. Is this fact -- or anything else about these globals -- documented anywhere? I looked through the Zope Book, ZQR, HowTos and Tips to no avail. I also searched the online help. I did find a _reference_ to AUTHENTICATED_USER and to REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER in a function called SecurityGetUser() but no real information on the use of the AuthenticatedUser class itself. -- Learn to absorb information, internalize new ideas, and generate creative solutions three times faster, triple guaranteed! Ask me about Acccelerated Learning Plus! Free introductory lesson. dan@gui.com - 831-643-0590 (Voice) - 831-401-2531 (Fax)