this might help you. note that I could not get manage_Editobjects to work, so I just delete and recreate when user submits changes. ****************editdoc (the form)**************** <form name=frmEditDoc method=post action=updateDoc> <input type=hidden name=docid value="<dtml-var docid>">       <textarea cols=90 rows=20 name=doctext> <!--#var expr="_.getitem(docid)"--> </textarea> </form> ********************************** **********updatedoc (the method) ************************ <dtml-call expr="RESPONSE.setHeader('pragma','no-cache')"> <dtml-call expr="manage_delObjects(docid)"> <dtml-call expr="manage_addDTMLDocument( id=docid, file=doctext, title=docid)"> <dtml-call expr="RESPONSE.redirect('edit_doc?docid=' + docid)"> *************************************************