On 8 Apr 2004 at 14:18, James Hale <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Secondly (this seems harder): > > I would need to update the membership of this list every night. > > There would actually be some 1500 lists that would need updating. <snip> > The nightly update comes from the human resources system, for the staff > list, and from the student record system, for all the other lists. This > is to ensure that only those actually enrolled or on payroll are > included. > For this part of your question, you might look into setting up your lists as DBMS-backed lists. Then you just need to set up scripts to do automatic updates to the list-related database tables based on changes to the HR and student databases. Francoise