Hi - I've working on a site that has a number of core authors (with user accounts) who sometimes collaborate with irregular contributors (without accounts). When they get jointly credited using an Author Alias, the items no longer link back to the valid user specified in the Author dropdown.

I'd like to set this up so that the author link in my items points back to the 'lead' author, who has an account.

When an author alias is set, the information in the following array just relates to the alias:
$this->item->params->get('itemAuthor')

Is there any way to still access the original author value in these circumstances?

Many thanks,

Ben