I took a D7 site as a small side job the last few weeks mostly to learn Views and to get a chance to write a series of blogposts about how to create interesting things with D7 and Views. This is the first but not the last by far. So we needed a portfolio/username view. This is tricky -- you don't want a User: name, instead you need to add a User: uid contextual filter (argument in D6), specify a User validator and pick Only allow string usernames. After this, in the Header and in the No results behaviour Global: Text Area you can use %1 to stand in for the username even if there is no result indeed. Superb nice and not too hard once you know how. Thanks to merlinofchaos for the tip.

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