Hallo James, if you wnat to display agenda_gif_text try this: <dtml-var "_.getitem('<objectid>')"> ---> <dtml-var "_.getitem(text)"> Link:http://zdp.zope.org/projects/zsnippet/snippets/DTMLContent/getobject_by_r eference Bye Sven ------------ <sven hohage> <applikationsentwickler> ------------