The next day, feeling refreshed, Lynn decided to tackle the contextual filters default value options. "I think it would be nice to have a list of the properties waiting to be published, or listed as we say, displayed on the user page after they log into the site. As the only users who log in are real estate salespeople who enter the listings but have to wait for my office manager or myself to approve of them, showing the listings still waiting will let them follow up with us if we somehow forget."

Jackson had deemed it sufficiently boring in the house that he was willing to curl up next to Lynn's monitor in his usual spot. Lynn reached up and gave him a quick scratch.

"The simplest solution would be to create a block and have it displayed only on the user's page. This much I know how to do with a standard view and the usual block visibility settings. However, if I want to use a single view display and pass the user ID or username to it as a filter,...