Dynamic TOC

Greetings,
I had a meeting with a client, who demoed Oracle's User Productivity Kit (UPK).
One of the interesting features is displaying a TOC based on the user role. The user selects a role and the TOC displays the topics based on the selected role.
I would like to mimic this feature within RoboHelp. My plan is:
1. Create a button on the Toolbar - User Roles.
2. List of roles display, user clicks the appropriate role.
3. How can I display the required TOC based on the click?
Thanks,

Hi Colum
I see your point about using Conditional Build Tags, but nothing was said about certain topics not needing to be excluded.
Can you expound on your suggestion of using the Mini TOC? I'm having a real mental struggle with trying to even understand how that would come into play to address the issue. Mini TOC appears in the Topics and has no bearing on the primary TOC. I assumed the initial post was asking about how to influence the primary TOC, hence my confusion.
Cheers... Rick
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