I would like to let you know, that applying "map" to "Z SQL Method" results in a Tales expression may cause a weird exception with ZPT 1.4 and Zope 2.3.3: Error type: Unauthorized Error value: __len__ Wrapping the "Shared.DC.ZRDB.Results.Results" instance into a "list(...)" is a work around. More info: ZPT tracker item 51. Dieter