First thing, please don't send HTML email to the list, some of can't handle it, and it makes life difficult when reading mail. Thanks. Onto your question, create an external method to return the imagefile. There have been other posts on this subject, try searching the archive. HTH philh phil@philh.org -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of zope Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 1:11 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] how to access files outside the database How can I access files that do not lie inside the Zope database. I need that feature because I have to write an image database where the images are stored in a common directory and only the filenames are stored in the RDBMS. If I address an image wit the <IMG...> tag zope searches in its internal object hierarchy. Is there any possibility? Thanks in advance Philipp Auersperg