It appears to be a common problem and noone has yet come up with an answer. Maybe someone from DC could explain what is wrong with the cut/paste code or point out what we are all doing wrong.

Once I find an answer I will write a HowTo so that others don't bash thier heads against this like I have for the last week.

Hi guys, I think that what you are running into is the fact that cut/copy and paste originated as a through-the-web only operation. It stored object references in the "clipboard", which is really just a cookie containing the serialized object references. Of course, this won't work if you try to use cut/paste programmatically all within the same request - the manage_pasteObjects method will look for the "clipboard" cookie and fail to find it (and then blow up). This is, in fact, what the "no clipboard data found" message you are seeing means. Luckily, there is a way to do it programmatically - you just need to modify your code a little bit because you have to manage the "clipboard data" yourself. First, lets look at the behavior of manage_copyObjects. Its signature is: manage_copyObjects(self, ids, REQUEST=None, RESPONSE=None) If you call manage_copyObjects and pass a REQUEST object, it will assume that it is being called through the web and store the clipboard data in the RESPONSE object of the passed in REQUEST. If you do *not* pass a REQUEST, the method will *return* the clipboard data to the caller. So the first change we need to make is to save the result of calling manage_copyObjects. Next, look at manage_pasteObjects: manage_pasteObjects(self, cb_copy_data=None, REQUEST=None) This method need *either* to get the "clipboard data" passed in explicitly (as cb_copy_data), or to get it from a cookie in the passed in REQUEST. Since we are doing this all in one request, we'll need to pass the clipboard data in directly. Note that there is currently a dependency on the REQUEST being available in the current implementation (so that it can determine whether you are allow to perform the paste), so you'll need to pass in both the clip data and the REQUEST. So here's an (untested) modification that should do what you want - the only real difference is that we have to handle the clip data explicitly. <dtml-with Members> <dtml-with "_.getitem(uname).content"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('my_clip_data', manage_copyObjects(ids))"> </dtml-with> <dtml-with "_.getitem(AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()).content"> <dtml-call "manage_pasteObjects(my_clip_data, REQUEST)"> </dtml-with> </dtml-with> Hope this helps! Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com