Dan Jacobs writes: > Is there an easy way within a DTML method to acquire a named object that > may be anywhere upward. > > At the moment I'm looking at the parent by doing > aq_parent['name'] > but that only looks one level up. You may try: "getattr(aq_parent,name)" It starts at "aq_parent" looking for "name" and, if unsuccessful, uses acquisition to resolve "name". Dieter