Can Tiki do row level security?
A further update - I think I have figured out what I was doing wrong - I needed to:
- Create a group
- Set the tracker itself so I could view my own group
- Use a trackerlist to filter by group
That worked a tread 
One last thing, is there a way you can hide the Items button as per the attached?
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