in reply to Large Variable to small variables, why dont they display

Barry,

A bit of "teach a man to fish", if you will. I did this reply on debugging Template Toolkit a few days ago. When I have a weird missing-data-in-Template situation like yours, whipping out [% USE Dumper %], and printing out the response, has been the starting point on resolving many a problem.

Does that make sense, and help?

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.