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For the second part of your question, look into Element Sources. You might be able to pull off something fancy in a module, where certain users have access to different sources.
For the first part of your question, look into the EVENT_REGISTER_TABLE_ATTRIBUTES and EVENT_SET_TABLE_ATTRIBUTE_HTML events. Here is a rough example of how it will look...
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