Views question with user reference I have a content type courses with course name, instructor, coordinator and ta fields. Instructor and coordinator are of type user_reference.

My data looks like below

course   instructor    coordinator

101       joe           guo 

102       joe           larry 

103       guo           joe

My course view has filter criteria as below
content access: access and Contextual filter : author ID

When Joe logs in, the display looks like

Courses

101

102

103

I'm trying to figure out how to display only the courses joe is an instructor for. It should not show 103.

Any ideas?
What you want is a contextual filter on your user reference field. It should be label like Content: Instructor (or whatever you named your instructor or coordinator field). For the When the filter value is not in the URL option, select Provide the default value and use the User ID from logged in user option.