I got it working the way you suggested so I went ahead and created an object with custom methods to return values I need in a template. I create the object as private just before executing response.expandtemplate. The template contains:

<<\%=oFormVars.GetDateRange()\%>>

The resulting page shows:

< \% ERROR: oFormVars.GetDateRange \% >>

So I creates a private var (lcTestMessage) with some text in it. This fails too. Finally, I put

<<=TYPE('lcTestMessage')>>

and the value in the web page is

U

. According to the Web Connect samples, this should work. What gives?

TIA
>Use an equal sign before date() like this
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>Glenn
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>>I have decided to use expandtemplate for the first time so I set up a simple process which executes as follows:
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>>response.expandtemplate('testtemplate.wc')
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>>testtemplate.wc contains date() within the proper open and close percentage tags. (I can't show the contents here, UT says I am not allowed to put tags in my text)
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>>The resulting page contains everything in the testtemplate.wc but the date() function is not evaluated. Why?
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>>TIA