# Feature OP-14535 - Make the Author field editable or settable

Project: OpenProject
Status: closed
URL: https://community.openproject.org/work_packages/OP-14535

## Planning

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| Priority | Medium |
| Target versions | 14.0.0 |
| Sprint | 14.0.0 |
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## OPEN POINTS / FEEDBACK

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## Features and Chunks

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| Requires doc change | No |
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## Details

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| Accessibility | No |

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## Description

**As** an Openproject Administrator  
**I want to** author field to be settable from the api  
**so that** i can create bulk work packages with custom authors.

**Acceptance criteria**

*   **API Ability**: The "author" field can be set via the API to allow bulk creation of work packages with custom authors.
    *   This ability is restricted to the API credentials of global administrators
*   **Updated API Documentation**: Ensure the OpenProject API documentation reflects the new capability to specify the author of a work package.

I am writing different scripts to migrate from jira to openproject and want the author to be the same user as in the source data.   
A dirty hack would be to get api keys from all the users (what would be reaaally unsafe)   
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