Author's nodes page with Views

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I have a site where there can be more than one node author. My solution to this is a custom user reference field called additional authors, added to my content type. So if three people wrote an article, the person who publishes it, enters the other two into this additional authors field.

The problem I have is the following: I'm trying to create a page (with Views) with the listing of all author's nodes - these can be either nodes where he is author OR nodes where he is referenced under additional authors. I want the author to be specified in the url (mysite.com/people/john-smith), but if I use contextual filters in Views, I can't seem to find the option to use OR - e.g. take author ID from url and show nodes where he is author of OR nodes where he is under additional authors.

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Call a php function in arguments and return all node ids seperated by comma in that. - nikunj
Would you care to elaborate? I've mostly used just the WYSIWYG portion of Views. - mzgajner
I don't think you can do that. At least without writing your own Views filter handler. Could you switch to having all authors populate that author field? This is what I have done before, using Rules to automate the process of adding yourself to the authors field if you're missing. - Tobias Sjösten
Okay this might sound really strange, but have you checked the search_api module + db_search_api backend? you would index the articles node types author and ref fields and then create a view based on the search index where you add a contextual filter that uses the name. I used a similar technique when I needed all articles that featured a name in the text shown as a table. - mikewink
I can give you example of such work that I have done in past, I can give you a screencast or a link to blog. I will create one if I don't find in a day. rapwars.com, this is not yet live but one of the site, where I have used such stuff in internal listing pages - nikunj

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I don't see any problem here:?? why you don't add the 'authors field' to your fields?
If you don't find it by the normal way look for it in 'Relationships'
Goodluck