The following Code will allow you to display colored query results to the text you’re querying for. Being that I am a PHP developer and cannot cover all server side solutions, I’ll provide the code and JSON.

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This override will allow you to take the columns menu and move it to where ever you want. It was a quick one hour solution for the EXT 2.0 help forums.

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Place this override just after your extjs scripts

For my employer, I’m currently experimenting with an awesome FLEX library called flexvizgraplib which is nothing short of remarkable. It was relatively easy to integrate with EXTJS.  Essentially, this application map is gathered via queries to my employer’s installation of HP Universal Configuration Manager Database without having to use their unreliable API.   The maps will represent dependency relationships with applications, servers and databases.  This application serves as an Operations Portal for my employer’s data center.