Hi Ivan !

Ivan Mackintosh wrote:
>  I have tried storing the url of the document but when I try to access 
>  properties of it I get told that it is a string. I cannot convince Zope that 
>  it is an object. 
> 
>  Any help appreciated for this problem. I have provided the entire scenario
>  rather than just the problem of converting a string to an object incase I am
>  creating a solution that is way to complicated and you could tell me a simple
>  way of doing this.

The translation of URLs to Objects is covered on zdp.zope.org:

ZDP >  Projects > ZSnippets > Snippets > DTML Content > Get Object from URL

http://zdp.zope.org/projects/zsnippet/snippets/DTMLContent/ObjectFormURL

Greetings,

Maik