Issue with Contextual Filters

Question

I have a pretty particular issue that I'm running into with setting up an Administration View using Contextual Filters.

I've set up a view to handle /admin/content.

Basically, what I would like is for users in a particular role to see the content that they are authors of, and one specific other content type, for which nodes are submitted by anonymous users through a webform.

So, to recap, users in this role need to see:

• Nodes that they are the author of
• Nodes submitted by anonymous users, of a specific content type

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You shouldn't need contextual filters for this as nothing needs to be passed in via the URL.

It should work like this using regular filters:

1. Create a node view
2. Add a relationship for "Content: Author"
3. Add a filter for "Content: Type" and restrict to the specific content type you refer to.
4. Add a filter for "User: Current" and set it to "Yes". This will be using the relationship you defined in step 2.
5. Click the drop down next to the filter criteria heading and click "And/Or, Rearrange".
6. Change the operator for your 2 filters to "Or". Then you will see on the right it says current user or content type. Then click apply. - Note that if you have other filters set you may have to click the "Create new filter group" button then add these 2 filters to the new group then use "Or" within that group and "And" for the rest.