[DUG-TO] Passing arguments to Views

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hi all,

I'm looking for pointers to techniques or modules that could help with a
specific issue I've encountered.

I have a cck content type, "authors", and another one called "reports".
I need to have a field in the author CCK type that would provide a URL
pointing to a "page" listing all the reports in which the author is
credited. Almost every report has multiple authors. And not all authors
are registered users of the site.

I suspect this can be done in views but I'm not yet comfortable with the
process of how to do this. Can anyone point me to some decent docs on
how to pass arguments to views? I'm using the links module to allow me
to provide the URL. What I guess I need to do is pass
<lastname + ", " + first_initial > to a view, at which point I think I
know what to do. Can this be done without writing new code?

Or can someone suggest a better way to do this?

Thanks! All help is appreciated.

- Evan