How to create a view that shows a Managing User all content of their members? I want to create a View that lists all content of authors who have the same value (text) as the viewing user. Actually they are members and the viewing user is the manager of the members. I have 2 profile fields that I think could be used to show the desired results: 

1) an entity reference field called "field_ca_reference" to allow a member to reference a manager

2) a text field is set upon member verification that has the exact same value on both the member and the manager

How do I set up this view such that the manager sees all content of their members only?
First of all create a view of all content.

Next, add a relationship to the author of the content. Call the relationship author. Check 'require this relationship'.

Next, add a contextual filter on the entity reference field to the manager, using the author relationship. Under 'When the filter is not available' select 'Provide a default value', and choose 'User ID from logged in user'.

Let me know if it works for you.

I've added an image of my view for you:



And here is an export of my view - you should be able to import this and it will just work:

$view = new view();
$view-&gt;name = 'test';
$view-&gt;description = '';
$view-&gt;tag = 'default';
$view-&gt;base_table = 'node';
$view-&gt;human_name = 'Test';
$view-&gt;core = 7;
$view-&gt;api_version = '3.0';
$view-&gt;disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */

/* Display: Master */
$handler = $view-&gt;new_display('default', 'Master', 'default');
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['title'] = 'Test';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['use_more_always'] = FALSE;
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['access']['type'] = 'perm';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['cache']['type'] = 'none';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['query']['type'] = 'views_query';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['exposed_form']['type'] = 'basic';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['pager']['type'] = 'full';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['pager']['options']['items_per_page'] = '10';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['style_plugin'] = 'default';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['row_plugin'] = 'node';
/* Relationship: Content: Author */
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['relationships']['uid']['id'] = 'uid';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['relationships']['uid']['table'] = 'node';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['relationships']['uid']['field'] = 'uid';
/* Field: Content: Title */
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['fields']['title']['id'] = 'title';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['fields']['title']['table'] = 'node';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['fields']['title']['field'] = 'title';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['fields']['title']['label'] = '';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['word_boundary'] = FALSE;
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['ellipsis'] = FALSE;
/* Sort criterion: Content: Post date */
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['sorts']['created']['id'] = 'created';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['sorts']['created']['table'] = 'node';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['sorts']['created']['field'] = 'created';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['sorts']['created']['order'] = 'DESC';
/* Contextual filter: User: CA reference (field_ca_reference) */
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['id'] = 'field_ca_reference_target_id';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['table'] = 'field_data_field_ca_reference';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['field'] = 'field_ca_reference_target_id';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['relationship'] = 'uid';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['default_action'] = 'default';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['default_argument_type'] = 'current_user';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['summary']['number_of_records'] = '0';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['summary']['format'] = 'default_summary';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['arguments']['field_ca_reference_target_id']['summary_options']['items_per_page'] = '25';
/* Filter criterion: Content: Published */
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['filters']['status']['id'] = 'status';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['filters']['status']['table'] = 'node';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['filters']['status']['field'] = 'status';
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['filters']['status']['value'] = 1;
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['filters']['status']['group'] = 1;
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['filters']['status']['expose']['operator'] = FALSE;

/* Display: Page */
$handler = $view-&gt;new_display('page', 'Page', 'page');
$handler-&gt;display-&gt;display_options['path'] = 'test';