>>Dragan --
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>>Back in my DOS days I had a problem similar. Using a drilldown in hierarchical data design to access detail information.
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>>The form used one interface for the navigation. A listbox tracked the history of filters the user chose. The browse showed the various hierarchies. Navigating through levels was simple. The user could create a new filter, pop up a level, or view the detail record at any time. The Web interface with backward/forward movement makes it even more familiar.
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>>I know that's overkill for your situation, but just wanted to mention it.
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>This one doesn't use any filtering (yet), it sorts the record (in a searchable grid) and the user drills down from that one record. I thought of organizing stuff into a treeview initially, but it would be too big, hard to navigate, and it could sort per one column only. This way I'm showing multiple columns at any one level, and also have ability to add any sort of records at any level. It's actually a construction site documentation tracker, and they have some protocols there that tie my hands somewhat... and guess what, this thing should have been done by others long ago, but they all pretty much gave it up, and it's now my turn to try to fix it ASAP. Not a nice situation, but at least I'm doing my best. Besides, this is for my company at home, and I can communicate with the customer via email only... which makes it even more interesting.

Yeah -- it's always those things that others have given up on that need to be done yesterday!

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>So yes, I would like to have a consistent interface for the navigation, and this is something the cusomer is somewhat used to, because I've had this sort of "searchable grid" back in FPD2.6 apps they're still using. And I already have the classes developed to do this fast, so I actually don't have much choice. The previous paradigm was "call a form for each document type directly for the menu, and find the parent document for each entry you make", which repeated the navigation in each form. That was the overkill :)

Can't you just tell them they're getting awfully close to an infinite loop? Ah, well, the customer is always right! And, the older the customer, the better...

Jay