---
title: excludedTransactionAuthors
framework: contacts
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: contacts/cnchangehistoryfetchrequest/excludedtransactionauthors
---

# excludedTransactionAuthors

An array of strings that identify transaction authors to exclude from the fetch results.

## Declaration

```swift
var excludedTransactionAuthors: [String]? { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Specify authors using the same string(s) that you use in CNSaveRequest’s transactionAuthor to suppress processing changes that you already know about.

## See Also

### Configuring the fetch request

- [additionalContactKeyDescriptors](contacts/cnchangehistoryfetchrequest/additionalcontactkeydescriptors.md)
- [includeGroupChanges](contacts/cnchangehistoryfetchrequest/includegroupchanges.md)
- [mutableObjects](contacts/cnchangehistoryfetchrequest/mutableobjects.md)
- [shouldUnifyResults](contacts/cnchangehistoryfetchrequest/shouldunifyresults.md)
- [startingToken](contacts/cnchangehistoryfetchrequest/startingtoken.md)