>Thanks Naomi. That give me a little vision on how to do this. Let me ask another related question. Suppose we have the user build this complex "filter" using these techniques. Is there a good way to persist this filter across several pages?
>(I'm still hung on the VFP way of thinking.)
I am not exactly sure what do you mean? You can save any variable in the session variable to keep the information across multiple pages.
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