... create a new column named us_UserExt ... varchar(8000) ... this would allow me to store an ADO dataset in XML format that I could use to create as many tables and fields that I like to extend the information stored for a user (helpful for migrating users in an old system into StrataFrame where more information about a user is stored in the old system that does not map directly to one of the fields in the current SFSUsers table. 

This is along the lines of the user defined fields in the .SCX/.SCT fields for the screen definitions in VFP.

You don't have to surface it on the current Security dialog so no visual changes need to be made there.  Simply rebuild the SFSUsersBO to include the new field and give me/us access to it.  I can then create an IS-A relationship using subclassing to CRUD the information stored therein.

CT

Charles T. Blankenship
Senior Consultant
Novant Consulting, Inc.
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