http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T14:27:18 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-pa5.htm#1527 In my last comment I forgot to mention that <br />while I'm not sure why cfapplication, cferror and <br />cflock are listed as related tags, the functions <br />getbasetagpath() and getbasetagdata() really <br />ought to be included in the "see also" for this tag isaac dealey 0 0 2003-08-29T16:26:10 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-pa5.htm#1511 Unfortunately documentation for this tag is somewhat lacking... <br />Probably owing to its infrequent use... <br /><br />That being said these are my pointers:<br />1) the basetag attribute should always be formatted as "cf_mytag" which will work the same even when using cfmodule or cfimport syntax<br />2) if the CFMX engine doesn't find the base tag it will produce the error message "base tag did not expose any data" (which confused me because I expected "base tag not found" or something similar)<br />3) to clarify: to access data from the sub-tag within the base tag using thistag.collectionName remember this variable will always be an array of structures, so that if there are multiples of the same sub-tag <br />the array will contain multiple structures - thus if the sub-tag cf_input contains only <cfassociate basetag="cf_form" dataCollection="input"> <br />the syntax to get the name attribute of the first cf_input tag within cf_form is #thistag.input[1].name# isaac dealey 0 0 2003-08-28T18:03:30