Author

Author is a person who has an account to access the Quintype platform, with permissions or roles assigned, who can write, edit and publish stories. All authors are migrated with the role Guest Contributor by default. If you require creation of additional roles, then you have to connect with Quintype support.

Author is different from User

Format

{
  "name": "Rohit Kumar",
  "username": "Rohit Kumar",
  "email": "rohit@qt.com",
  "external-id": "Rohit Kumar",
  "role": "Provided by support",
  "bio": "string",
  "metadata":{
    "key": "value"
  }
}

Schema

Key	Type
name *	String
username *	String
email *	String
external-id *	String
role	String
bio	String
metadata	Object

metadata

Key	Type
key	String
value	Any

Notes

[1] All mandatory fields are marked with an *