Wow! Simply put and very informative. I will try your concept.
By the Way, the term cascading means that when a certain condition is met, more of the form can come into view, right? I don't want the user to be overwhelmed with info, but I do want more options to pop up if certain criterion are met. If that is cascading, then I need to not only learn filtering, but cascading as well. Again, Thank you for your intuition and helping me by reading...

Hello from Asia Minor,
I am far away from home and my reference material is not with me.
Dilemma: I have been asked to create a program from scratch that will have a search engine built into it, searching for personal data at a sentry post, to make it easier than searching through tons of papers printed out which change daily, weekly and monthly. Drawing on what little programming language I know, I have composed something. However,...