"J. Atwood" wrote:

So In ZUBB (my discussion product) I want to be able to show how many replies there have been to any one main topic. All replies are 'children' of the main post and when I state it with

<dtml-tree branches=children> Stuff </dtml-tree>

It works and knows that each message is a child of the message.

When in go through a searchResult to list the message I want to show many replies there are to that message.

Q: How do I count the 'children' of any one onject?

if children aren't nested <dtml-let x="objectIds(['childrenClass'])"> <dtml-var "_.len(x)"> </dtml-let> if children are nested you probably need a recursive dtml/python method. in python def count_children(o): x = o.objectItems(['childClass']) sum = len(x) for child, child_name in x: sum = sum + count_children(child) return sum Kapil