Gianni... Thank you for the additional effort of illustrating how Oracle's brain works when handling filters via the GUI. You're so right in that it's not at all intuitive. It IS however, something my team can create work instructions around, set up some mock-ups for illustrative purposes and manage a work task against.…

Gianni... Thank you SO much for the concise guidance. It's most definitely not the answer I was hoping for but I've gotten it to work in my simple example so I'm sure it can be taken to scale. My team is having to move from SumTotal to Oracle. In SumTotal, we'd become very accustomed to "lay person friendly" filters and…

Here's a screen shot of how this plays out... When I click on the "AND" to create the new "OR" condition and establish a new grouped set of conditions, it ends up like this...

Yes, that's exactly the premise. The challenge is that while the premise stands, I may have 20 or 25 of those grouped sets of conditions, all with as many as 20-40 individual parameters defined within them. Thanks for your thoughts!