Contains multiple authors.
Field | Type | Description |
object_type | string | "authors" |
is_valid | true/false | true if this contains at least one author |
prepended | list of authors | authors that will be listed at the beginning of the items list |
fetched | list of authors | The primary list of authors to be included in the items list |
appended | list of authors | authors that will be listed at the end of the items list |
appended_unique | list of authors | authors that will be listed at the end of the items list, excluding any authors that are already included in either the prepended or fetched lists |
items | list of authors | The full list of authors in the proper order and uniqueness, including prepended, fetched, and appended authors |
size | number | The total number of items in the list of items, including prepended, fetched, and appended authors |
limit | number | The maximum number of authors that could have been fetched dynamically from the database |
start | number | The 1-based index of the first author that was (or would have been) dynamically fetched from the database |
page | number | The 1-based index of the first "page" of authors that could have been fetched dynamically from the database - as determined by the start and limit properties |
total_count | number | The total number of authors in the database that matched the provided filter parameters when fetching the list of fetched authors |
total_pages | number | The total number of "pages" of results that matched the provided filter parameters when fetching the list of fetched authors - as determined by the total_count and limit properties |
output | html | The default output that the authors will produce when it is output directly to the template - using the "output_in_list" property of each author in the items list |
linked_list | string | A shortcut to display a comma-separated list of author titles from the items list. Each title will be linked to the URL for that author if one exists. If there are no authors this will output "(none)". The last two items in the list will also be separated by " and " |