---
title: authors
framework: corespotlight
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/communications-swift.struct/authors
---

# authors

Attributes queried for the author field. Default: authorNames

## Declaration

```swift
var authors: [SearchableItemAttribute]?
```

## See Also

### Getting the domain attributes

- [received](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/communications-swift.struct/received.md)
- [recipients](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/communications-swift.struct/recipients.md)
- [sent](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/communications-swift.struct/sent.md)
- [topic](corespotlight/spotlightsearchtool/contentdomain/communications-swift.struct/topic.md)