Show user name instead id in collection

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Hi,

does anyone know if it is possible to get the related users name instead of the id when doing an GET request to a collection. In the response there is only the id of the “created_by” person, but I need his first and last name to be part of the response.

Hope anyone can help with this.

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Yes, it’s possible. created_by is a relational field, so Directus only returns the ID by default.
You can request specific nested fields like this:

GET /items/your_collection?fields=*,created_by.first_name,created_by.last_name

This will return the full user object with the name instead of just the ID.

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Thank you so much !
That helps me lot :blush: