is there a way to link the created_by field that gets auto generated to users (create a relation) rather than it being related to the admin Users?

Question

I'm new to Strapi tried creating a new collection and updating a value using postman for my endpoint.

The problem I'm having is that the "created_by" field seems to get auto-generated and will not allow me to update it using a created user credentials/id but it always picks the admin id.

I'm lost on this how can you relate the "created_by" field to your defined users rather than the admin table?

Answer 1

You shouldn't use "created_by" field.

You need a relation field between users and collection

Such as :

Relation with User (from: users-permissions)

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Please check this "many to one relation" example.

So projectroot\api\bird\models\bird.settings.json will have the following lines:

"user": {
      "via": "birds",
      "plugin": "users-permissions",
      "model": "user"
    },