I wrote something like this

select * from table where <dtml-in "('a', 'b', 'c')"> <dtml-let temp=sequence-item> colum like <dtml-sqlvar "'%' + _.string.strip(temp) + '%'" type=string> or </dtml-let> <dtml-if sequence-end> 1=2 </dtml-if> </dtml-in>

This worked fine, but when I replaced <dtml-in "('a', 'b', 'c')"> with <dtml-in keyWords> and call this method from another page as <dtml-var expr="sqlMethod(keyWords=('a', 'b', 'c'))">, nothing returns. Why? I then try to pass a list directly using test feature, but no matter what I input it always tell me 'no string allowed in the dtml-in function'. What did I do wrong?

Hi Jeff, can't tell you what prevents your method from doing what you want, but I can tell you what I did what worked in a similar situation. I use a python script to build the query string and just call that method via dtml-var, i.e. select * from table where <dtml-var my_script> the script looks like for s in context.REQUEST['my_dict']: query = query + "column LIKE '%" + s + "%'\n OR \n" query = query + '1=2' return query Just make sure that all the variables you need are in REQUEST. Maybe someone else has a more elegant or cleaner way of doing things. cheers, oliver PS: nice trick with that 1=2, tho