@mister.magoo:

Thanks for the effort, much appreciated!

What you have though is precisely my point...while I agree that it's not overly complicated, it's certainly "more" complicated, and i would think significantly less...

@Lowell:

I'm certainly not locked into any single way of doing it. As I stated in my previous post, the only implementations I can think of with that approach are...

I'm trying to make it so that you can select N number of categories in the UI and the program will return all the items that match either [any] or...