Fair enough on the use of the term "struggle." ;-)

I thought using custom-queries with the userid() would be sufficient, but then I began to have some doubts, which I see are not unfounded.

I then considered writing custom selects in Java, matching userids(), but then found that I couldn't convert a resultset to JSON for the ExtJs store to consume.

So, now I sort of stuck.

I do appreciate your insight.

b