I'm interpreting this as meaning the page has been passed a (string) values for the creator username. In this case you'd probably use the following code: <dtml-with expr="_.getattr(userdb,creator)"> <dtml-var FirstName missing=""> <dtml-var LastName missing=""> </dtml-with> This will look in the userdb folder for an object with an id matching the value specified in creator. Hope this helps, David Burton 16/05/2002 14:05:39, Niclas Kuehne <nk@nkmail.com> wrote:

Hi!

I would like to access the properties of a folder that I can only refer to by a variable. In my case it is a folder named the same as the creator's user name of the a page.

For example:

<dtml-with userdb> <dtml-with creator> <----- This should be a variable to the creator <dtml-if FirstName> <dtml-var FirstName> </dtml-if> <dtml-if LastName> <dtml-var LastName> </dtml-if> </dtml-with> </dtml-with>

I have a userdb folder witch contains subfolders for each user name. These subfolders have the properties "FirstName" and "LastName". How do I access these subfolders by using the "creator" variable on each page.

Any suggestions on how to do this? Or is there any simple Zope internal database for user management or some product that does this better?

Nic

nk@nkmail.com

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