hello, i worked for quite a long time with an odb content management system of a friend. i got used to get and set properties in the odb by simple assigning values to, resp. reading out values from the properties. something like <% node = new Node ("msg"); node.msgText = query ("msg"); % after a while playing around with zope (the version 2 beta) i found it wonderfully easy to read out data with dtml-objects. but i got stuck and confused trying to fill some data into a property the equivalent way. well, yes, it's not a problem in the management screen, no question. this works fine. but i am thinking of a web page one can open in a browser window without logging in or using the management screen. there, for example, one should be able to post a message and this message will be put into the odb. something like <!--#setProperty (msgText, REQUEST ['mgs']) --> (dumb question?) best regards, piefke