Hey,

I don't know if somebody else fixed this or not. I searched but did not find a solution.

I was trying to get a view of all the nodes that belonged to a user I flagged. Basically a 'Follow' function similar to Twitter.
The content view only allowed me to create a list of nodes that were flagged. So I added a few lines to the views file of the module and I got the wanted result.

So here's the patch, maybe it's something what others are searching for as well.

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flag-relationship-fix-na-1.patch870 bytesskein
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Status: Needs review » Needs work

I suspect this needs work. It should skip user flags, as I'm not sure it would make sense then (at least, it hurts my brain thinking about it).

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Well the relationship that I defined in the patch is using only user flags, so that you get only the content of the flagged user.

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+++ b/includes/flag.views.inc
@@ -207,6 +207,21 @@ function flag_views_data_alter(&$data) {
+      $data[$info['views table']]['flag_user_rel'] = array(

But this is inside a loop for each type of flag. So at some point, you're adding a user-user relationship by the look of it.

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Version: 7.x-2.x-dev » 7.x-3.x-dev
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Title: Create a view with nodes of flagged users » Documentation: Create a view with nodes authored by flagged users
Component: Views integration » Documentation
Category: feature » task
Status: Needs work » Active

Furthermore,

+++ b/includes/flag.views.inc
@@ -207,6 +207,21 @@ function flag_views_data_alter(&$data) {
+          'relationship field' => 'uid',

How do you know your entity table has a uid field? This will fail on most entities. We can't make this kind of assumption in flag.

What you need instead is:

- view of users
- relationship to the flag to limit users to those flagged
- add an argument on the flagging UID, to limit the result to users flagged by a particular UID
- add the User: Content authored relationship to go from the listed user(s) to the nodes

Converting this to a docs issue so this can be written up in the documentation cookbook.