I would agree with Paul's suggestion. With that amount of data, I can't see any way around the performance issues other than to find a good ajax based treecontrol ( i don't know of one to recommend, but I'm sure they must exist ) that you populate as the user expands each sub node. -Steve
>Sounds like a job for AJAX Can the categories be split into >sub-categories? If so you can fetch the data in the background when >needed. > >-- >Paul > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

