diff --git a/bootstrap.php b/bootstrap.php
index e0192039448695715b8614b1370b958b97b2dcaa..ff7cf6b641d84a1aafc42bbbb299612817bf7fba 100644
--- a/bootstrap.php
+++ b/bootstrap.php
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class Bootstrap {
         require(INCLUDE_DIR.'class.log.php');
         require(INCLUDE_DIR.'class.crypto.php');
         require(INCLUDE_DIR.'class.timezone.php');
-        require(INCLUDE_DIR.'class.signal.php');
+        require_once(INCLUDE_DIR.'class.signal.php');
         require(INCLUDE_DIR.'class.nav.php');
         require(INCLUDE_DIR.'class.page.php');
         require_once(INCLUDE_DIR.'class.format.php'); //format helpers
diff --git a/include/class.dynamic_forms.php b/include/class.dynamic_forms.php
index 52e3109356db760e6a9d412c7782b5697b9891ec..f48303754b3e1e18b7bc62f94b5f05267617c1a3 100644
--- a/include/class.dynamic_forms.php
+++ b/include/class.dynamic_forms.php
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 **********************************************************************/
 require_once(INCLUDE_DIR . 'class.orm.php');
 require_once(INCLUDE_DIR . 'class.forms.php');
+require_once(INCLUDE_DIR . 'class.signal.php');
 
 /**
  * Form template, used for designing the custom form and for entering custom
@@ -196,6 +197,85 @@ class TicketForm extends DynamicForm {
         static::$instance = $o[0]->instanciate();
         return static::$instance;
     }
+
+    // Materialized View for Ticket custom data (MySQL FlexViews would be
+    // nice)
+    //
+    // @see http://code.google.com/p/flexviews/
+    static function getDynamicDataViewFields() {
+        $fields = array();
+        foreach (self::getInstance()->getFields() as $f) {
+            $impl = $f->getImpl();
+            if (!$impl->hasData() || $impl->isPresentationOnly())
+                continue;
+
+            $fields[] = sprintf(
+                'MAX(IF(field.name=\'%1$s\',ans.value,NULL)) as `%1$s`',
+                $f->get('name'));
+            if ($impl->hasIdValue()) {
+                $fields[] = sprintf(
+                    'MAX(IF(field.name=\'%1$s\',ans.value_id,NULL)) as `%1$s_id`',
+                    $f->get('name'));
+            }
+        }
+        return $fields;
+    }
+
+    static function ensureDynamicDataView() {
+        $sql = 'SHOW TABLES LIKE \''.TABLE_PREFIX.'ticket__cdata\'';
+        if (!db_num_rows(db_query($sql)))
+            return static::buildDynamicDataView();
+    }
+
+    static function buildDynamicDataView() {
+        // create  table __cdata (primary key (ticket_id)) as select
+        // entry.object_id as ticket_id, MAX(IF(field.name = 'subject',
+        // ans.value, NULL)) as `subject`,MAX(IF(field.name = 'priority',
+        // ans.value, NULL)) as `priority_desc`,MAX(IF(field.name =
+        // 'priority', ans.value_id, NULL)) as `priority_id`
+        // FROM ost_form_entry entry LEFT JOIN ost_form_entry_values ans ON
+        // ans.entry_id = entry.id LEFT JOIN ost_form_field field ON
+        // field.id=ans.field_id
+        // where entry.object_type='T' group by entry.object_id;
+        $fields = static::getDynamicDataViewFields();
+        $sql = 'CREATE TABLE `'.TABLE_PREFIX.'ticket__cdata` (PRIMARY KEY (ticket_id)) AS
+            SELECT entry.`object_id` AS ticket_id, '.implode(',', $fields)
+         .' FROM ost_form_entry entry
+            JOIN ost_form_entry_values ans ON ans.entry_id = entry.id
+            JOIN ost_form_field field ON field.id=ans.field_id
+            WHERE entry.object_type=\'T\' GROUP BY entry.object_id';
+        db_query($sql);
+    }
+
+    static function dropDynamicDataView() {
+        db_query('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `'.TABLE_PREFIX.'ticket__cdata`');
+    }
+
+    static function updateDynamicDataView($answer, $data) {
+        // TODO: Detect $data['dirty'] for value and value_id
+        // We're chiefly concerned with Ticket form answers
+        if (!($e = $answer->getEntry()) || $e->get('object_type') != 'T')
+            return;
+
+        // If the `name` column is in the dirty list, we would be renaming a
+        // column. Delete the view instead.
+        if (isset($data['dirty']) && isset($data['dirty']['name']))
+            return self::dropDynamicDataView();
+
+        // $record = array();
+        // $record[$f] = $answer->value'
+        // TicketFormData::objects()->filter(array('ticket_id'=>$a))
+        //      ->merge($record);
+        $f = $answer->getField()->get('name');
+        $ids = $answer->getField()->hasIdValue();
+        $fields = sprintf('`%s`=', $f) . db_input($answer->get('value'));
+        if ($answer->getField()->hasIdValue())
+            $fields .= sprintf(',`%s_id`=', $f) . db_input($answer->getIdValue());
+        $sql = 'INSERT INTO `'.TABLE_PREFIX.'ticket__cdata` SET '.$fields
+            .', `ticket_id`='.db_input($answer->getEntry()->get('object_id'))
+            .' ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE '.$fields;
+        db_query($sql);
+    }
 }
 // Add fields from the standard ticket form to the ticket filterable fields
 Filter::addSupportedMatches('Custom Fields', function() {
@@ -207,6 +287,22 @@ Filter::addSupportedMatches('Custom Fields', function() {
     }
     return $matches;
 });
+Signal::connect('model.created',
+    array('TicketForm', 'updateDynamicDataView'),
+    'DynamicFormEntryAnswer');
+Signal::connect('model.updated',
+    array('TicketForm', 'updateDynamicDataView'),
+    'DynamicFormEntryAnswer');
+// Recreate the dynamic view after new or removed fields to the ticket
+// details form
+Signal::connect('model.created',
+    array('TicketForm', 'dropDynamicDataView'),
+    'DynamicFormField',
+    function($o) { return $o->getForm()->get('type') == 'T'; });
+Signal::connect('model.deleted',
+    array('TicketForm', 'dropDynamicDataView'),
+    'DynamicFormField',
+    function($o) { return $o->getForm()->get('type') == 'T'; });
 
 require_once(INCLUDE_DIR . "class.json.php");
 
@@ -555,6 +651,7 @@ class DynamicFormEntry extends VerySimpleModel {
                 array('field_id'=>$f->get('id')));
             $a->field = $f;
             $a->field->setAnswer($a);
+            $a->entry = $inst;
             $inst->_values[] = $a;
         }
         return $inst;
diff --git a/include/class.forms.php b/include/class.forms.php
index bff57fc4c81885f9648510c6d3725e8c990d67e7..a09f25cdbd38ed5807b687b0f0e104e92e7a78dd 100644
--- a/include/class.forms.php
+++ b/include/class.forms.php
@@ -434,6 +434,14 @@ class FormField {
         return $this->presentation_only;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Indicates if the field places data in the `value_id` column. This
+     * is currently used by the materialized view system
+     */
+    function hasIdValue() {
+        return false;
+    }
+
     function getConfigurationForm() {
         if (!$this->_cform) {
             $type = static::getFieldType($this->get('type'));
@@ -787,6 +795,10 @@ class PriorityField extends ChoiceField {
         return $widget;
     }
 
+    function hasIdValue() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
     function getChoices() {
         $this->ht['default'] = 0;
 
diff --git a/include/class.orm.php b/include/class.orm.php
index 38d3482daf79c91fddeb9ef0f9b81240d4a4ed42..dee287cea77adc73d323db573e79a83151a998de 100644
--- a/include/class.orm.php
+++ b/include/class.orm.php
@@ -147,7 +147,10 @@ class VerySimpleModel {
         foreach ($pk as $p)
             $filter[] = $p.' = '.db_input($this->get($p));
         $sql .= ' WHERE '.implode(' AND ', $filter).' LIMIT 1';
-        return db_query($sql) && db_affected_rows() == 1;
+        if (!db_query($sql) || db_affected_rows() != 1)
+            throw new Exception(db_error());
+        Signal::send('model.deleted', $this);
+        return true;
     }
 
     function save($refetch=false) {
@@ -183,6 +186,11 @@ class VerySimpleModel {
             $this->__new__ = false;
             // Setup lists again
             $this->__setupForeignLists();
+            Signal::send('model.created', $this);
+        }
+        else {
+            $data = array('dirty' => $this->dirty);
+            Signal::send('model.updated', $this, $data);
         }
         # Refetch row from database
         # XXX: Too much voodoo
diff --git a/include/class.signal.php b/include/class.signal.php
index f931acebc50c8beaf020859279c2ba0cba56f1de..928c15c4d2392ae767a0c465b6730d859f3dc85f 100644
--- a/include/class.signal.php
+++ b/include/class.signal.php
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class Signal {
             list($s, $callable, $check) = $sub;
             if ($s && !is_a($object, $s))
                 continue;
-            elseif ($check && !call_user_func($check, $data))
+            elseif ($check && !call_user_func($check, $object, $data))
                 continue;
             call_user_func($callable, $object, $data);
         }
diff --git a/include/staff/tickets.inc.php b/include/staff/tickets.inc.php
index e463e515d88a0afa7c7e013f57adf9f411d0dc9a..205956a915905f41eb41195396104c170d62d1e7 100644
--- a/include/staff/tickets.inc.php
+++ b/include/staff/tickets.inc.php
@@ -192,10 +192,7 @@ $$x=' class="'.strtolower($order).'" ';
 if($_GET['limit'])
     $qstr.='&limit='.urlencode($_GET['limit']);
 
-$qselect ='SELECT DISTINCT ticket.ticket_id,lock_id,ticketID,ticket.dept_id,ticket.staff_id,ticket.team_id '
-    .',MAX(IF(field.name = \'subject\', ans.value, NULL)) as `subject`'
-    .',MAX(IF(field.name = \'priority\', ans.value, NULL)) as `priority_desc`'
-    .',MAX(IF(field.name = \'priority\', ans.value_id, NULL)) as `priority_id`'
+$qselect ='SELECT ticket.ticket_id,lock_id,ticketID,ticket.dept_id,ticket.staff_id,ticket.team_id '
     .' ,user.name'
     .' ,email.address as email, dept_name '
          .' ,ticket.status,ticket.source,isoverdue,isanswered,ticket.created ';
@@ -203,18 +200,13 @@ $qselect ='SELECT DISTINCT ticket.ticket_id,lock_id,ticketID,ticket.dept_id,tick
 $qfrom=' FROM '.TICKET_TABLE.' ticket '.
        ' LEFT JOIN '.USER_TABLE.' user ON user.id = ticket.user_id'.
        ' LEFT JOIN '.USER_EMAIL_TABLE.' email ON user.id = email.user_id'.
-       ' LEFT JOIN '.DEPT_TABLE.' dept ON ticket.dept_id=dept.dept_id '.
-       ' LEFT JOIN '.FORM_ENTRY_TABLE.' entry ON entry.object_type=\'T\'
-             and entry.object_id=ticket.ticket_id'.
-       ' LEFT JOIN '.FORM_ANSWER_TABLE.' ans ON ans.entry_id = entry.id'.
-       ' LEFT JOIN '.FORM_FIELD_TABLE.' field ON field.id=ans.field_id';
+       ' LEFT JOIN '.DEPT_TABLE.' dept ON ticket.dept_id=dept.dept_id ';
 
 $sjoin='';
 if($search && $deep_search) {
     $sjoin=' LEFT JOIN '.TICKET_THREAD_TABLE.' thread ON (ticket.ticket_id=thread.ticket_id )';
 }
 
-$qgroup=' GROUP BY ticket.ticket_id';
 //get ticket count based on the query so far..
 $total=db_count("SELECT count(DISTINCT ticket.ticket_id) $qfrom $sjoin $qwhere");
 //pagenate
@@ -224,23 +216,23 @@ $pageNav=new Pagenate($total,$page,$pagelimit);
 $pageNav->setURL('tickets.php',$qstr.'&sort='.urlencode($_REQUEST['sort']).'&order='.urlencode($_REQUEST['order']));
 
 //ADD attachment,priorities, lock and other crap
-$qselect.=' ,count(attach.attach_id) as attachments '
-         .' ,count(DISTINCT thread.id) as thread_count '
-         .' ,IF(ticket.duedate IS NULL,IF(sla.id IS NULL, NULL, DATE_ADD(ticket.created, INTERVAL sla.grace_period HOUR)), ticket.duedate) as duedate '
+$qselect.=' ,IF(ticket.duedate IS NULL,IF(sla.id IS NULL, NULL, DATE_ADD(ticket.created, INTERVAL sla.grace_period HOUR)), ticket.duedate) as duedate '
          .' ,CAST(GREATEST(IFNULL(ticket.lastmessage, 0), IFNULL(ticket.reopened, 0), ticket.created) as datetime) as effective_date '
          .' ,CONCAT_WS(" ", staff.firstname, staff.lastname) as staff, team.name as team '
          .' ,IF(staff.staff_id IS NULL,team.name,CONCAT_WS(" ", staff.lastname, staff.firstname)) as assigned '
-         .' ,IF(ptopic.topic_pid IS NULL, topic.topic, CONCAT_WS(" / ", ptopic.topic, topic.topic)) as helptopic ';
+         .' ,IF(ptopic.topic_pid IS NULL, topic.topic, CONCAT_WS(" / ", ptopic.topic, topic.topic)) as helptopic '
+         .' ,cdata.priority_id, cdata.subject';
 
 $qfrom.=' LEFT JOIN '.TICKET_LOCK_TABLE.' tlock ON (ticket.ticket_id=tlock.ticket_id AND tlock.expire>NOW()
                AND tlock.staff_id!='.db_input($thisstaff->getId()).') '
-       .' LEFT JOIN '.TICKET_ATTACHMENT_TABLE.' attach ON (ticket.ticket_id=attach.ticket_id) '
-       .' LEFT JOIN '.TICKET_THREAD_TABLE.' thread ON ( ticket.ticket_id=thread.ticket_id) '
        .' LEFT JOIN '.STAFF_TABLE.' staff ON (ticket.staff_id=staff.staff_id) '
        .' LEFT JOIN '.TEAM_TABLE.' team ON (ticket.team_id=team.team_id) '
        .' LEFT JOIN '.SLA_TABLE.' sla ON (ticket.sla_id=sla.id AND sla.isactive=1) '
        .' LEFT JOIN '.TOPIC_TABLE.' topic ON (ticket.topic_id=topic.topic_id) '
-       .' LEFT JOIN '.TOPIC_TABLE.' ptopic ON (ptopic.topic_id=topic.topic_pid) ';
+       .' LEFT JOIN '.TOPIC_TABLE.' ptopic ON (ptopic.topic_id=topic.topic_pid) '
+       .' LEFT JOIN '.TABLE_PREFIX.'ticket__cdata cdata ON (cdata.ticket_id = ticket.ticket_id) ';
+
+TicketForm::ensureDynamicDataView();
 
 // Fetch priority information
 $res = db_query('select * from '.PRIORITY_TABLE);
@@ -248,7 +240,7 @@ $prios = array();
 while ($row = db_fetch_array($res))
     $prios[$row['priority_id']] = $row;
 
-$query="$qselect $qfrom $qwhere $qgroup ORDER BY $order_by $order LIMIT ".$pageNav->getStart().",".$pageNav->getLimit();
+$query="$qselect $qfrom $qwhere ORDER BY $order_by $order LIMIT ".$pageNav->getStart().",".$pageNav->getLimit();
 //echo $query;
 $hash = md5($query);
 $_SESSION['search_'.$hash] = $query;
@@ -262,6 +254,25 @@ if($search)
 
 $negorder=$order=='DESC'?'ASC':'DESC'; //Negate the sorting..
 
+// Fetch the results
+$results = array();
+while ($row = db_fetch_array($res)) {
+    $results[$row['ticket_id']] = $row;
+}
+
+// Fetch attachment and thread entry counts
+$counts_sql = 'SELECT ticket.ticket_id, count(attach.attach_id) as attachments,
+    count(DISTINCT thread.id) as thread_count
+    FROM '.TICKET_TABLE.' ticket
+    LEFT JOIN '.TICKET_ATTACHMENT_TABLE.' attach ON (ticket.ticket_id=attach.ticket_id) '
+ .' LEFT JOIN '.TICKET_THREAD_TABLE.' thread ON ( ticket.ticket_id=thread.ticket_id) '
+ .' WHERE ticket.ticket_id IN ('.implode(',', db_input(array_keys($results))).')
+    GROUP BY ticket.ticket_id';
+$ids_res = db_query($counts_sql);
+while ($row = db_fetch_array($ids_res)) {
+    $results[$row['ticket_id']] += $row;
+}
+
 //YOU BREAK IT YOU FIX IT.
 ?>
 <!-- SEARCH FORM START -->
@@ -345,9 +356,9 @@ $negorder=$order=='DESC'?'ASC':'DESC'; //Negate the sorting..
         <?php
         $class = "row1";
         $total=0;
-        if($res && ($num=db_num_rows($res))):
+        if($res && ($num=count($results))):
             $ids=($errors && $_POST['tids'] && is_array($_POST['tids']))?$_POST['tids']:null;
-            while ($row = db_fetch_array($res)) {
+            foreach ($results as $row) {
                 $tag=$row['staff_id']?'assigned':'openticket';
                 $flag=null;
                 if($row['lock_id'])