[I first posted in the Views module support thread but I don't think you can do this with Views, and there may be a much better way... so the forums seems a better place...]

On a site with multiple users, ten will be designated columnists who are able to create "Column"-type nodes. I want to create a list that displays details of each columnist with the title and teaser of their most recent column.

This could either be a list of the column content type, somehow restricted to the one most recent entry for each author, or a list of users with the role "Columnist" displaying next to them the title and teaser of the most recent column. However, either way I don't seem to be able to achieve this in Views. I have the first scenario looking exactly as I want it to from Views 2, providing I want to see every column they have written, rather than just their latest one.

Is there any way to achieve this in Views? If not, is there any other contrib I should look at? Or will I need to roll my own?

Thanks for any assistance. :)