sent this to myself by mistake...
....nothing quite as humiliating as replying to yourself...though it is nice to hear what you are thinking...

I've look into this and someone suggested to be using an Active Server Page which would check the users table, discover what
departments the user has control over, then so to the project table and see what active project there are and display them on the
intranet page.

How (if at all) would a com object be needed for this. Sorry for such elementray questions, but I am fairly new to this.

Thanks for all of your help..

CMH