I've formatted a view of Recent Comments as follows:

(Content) Content: Title (§ )
Comment: Updated date
Comment: Title
Comment: Author (by )
Comment: Comment
Global: Custom text

When it renders, authors always appear as "Anonymous". I found a related issue for core http://drupal.org/node/920056, and I thought applying that patch might improve things for me, but it didn't. I noticed two interesting things:

  • In the view creation interface, "Comment: Author (by )" links to admin/structure/views/nojs/config-item/comments_recent/page/field/name (even though we are configuring the author field)
  • The links that are produced when the box "Link this field to its user or an author's homepage" is checked are correctly linked to user homepages.
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    #1 recent-comments-view.txt15.5 KBholtzermann17

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    new recent-comments-view.txt15.5 KB

    Attaching an export of the view in question.

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    holtzermann17 commented
    Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

    Er... nevermind. I hadn't actually imported the 'name' fields. Sorry for the disruption.