[!--quoteo(post=382553:date=Jun 11 2006, 12:09 PM:name=redarrow)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(redarrow @ Jun 11 2006, 12:09 PM) [snapback]382553[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] when the user wants a certon task you need to let the database know so you do an update on that users row in a field and then you would select all the users that wanted that task. [/quote] That's half of it, yes. But users can also create tasks and asign one or more names to it. And when a user logs in a views their task list, it should get all the tasks where the cell 'tasked_persons' contains their name. That's the part that I'm NOT sure how to do. I could create a table to exists solely to link a persons name with a task_id, or I could perform a fulltext search of the tasklist table to find a name contained in the cell: 'tasked_persons' Does anyone have another suggestion? If not, which way is more realistic/functional for this application?