Hi,

I'm using Views 7.x-3.0-rc1 (freshly installed on a new installation of Drupal 7.2) to create a list of Articles. It's all working fine except the "User: Name" field appears to be missing.

To be more precise, I'm trying to make a view with one display (a block) that fetches the 5 most recent nodes of the content type "Article" - formatted as an "Unformatted List" of "Fields". I am excluding all fields from display except Content: Body so that I can rewrite its output.

The fields I have added to it are:
Content: Path
Content: Title
Content: Category
Content: Comment count
Content: New comments
Content: Comment status
Content: Add comment link
Content: Post date
Content: Body

It's also worth noting that the only User fields available are User: Authentication module, User: Authentication name, User Authmap ID and User: Roles. There is even a 'Content: Last comment author' field, but no sign of a user name/node author field anywhere.

Things I have tried:
- adding different types of display to the view
- creating a new view with different formatting options
- changing various settings in the view (e.g. adding Content: Nid)
- flushing the cache multiple times in between attempting the above

Nothing has worked and I'm at a bit of a loss - it seems like a bug, but I could just be missing something obvious. I saw no other Issues describing this either.

I hope this info is sufficient and will of course amend with details if needed.

Thanks

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Riari’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Sorry, just read the release notes for 7.x-3.0-rc1. I should've done that first...

If you are wondering why you no longer have access to "User: Name" when using a node view, it is because you now must add the "Node: Author" relationship