CreativeWork schema: author handling and entity references

Hi, it’s me again 😅

Sorry for another question — I promise this is the last one for today.

I’m currently trying to implement a CreativeWork schema for a PDF case study, and I’ve run into another limitation that I’m not sure how to solve with SASWP.

Here’s what I’m seeing:

1. Author / Editor
   Even if I manually configure the Author, SASWP still outputs the underlying WordPress page author/editor. The only workaround I found was changing the WordPress author of the page itself. Is there a way to completely override the automatically generated author/editor for CreativeWork?
2. Author object
   The “Author” field seems to behave differently from Author Type + Author Name. In some cases it appears to output the publisher instead of the actual author. Could you explain the intended difference between these options?
3. Multiple authors
   Our case study was created jointly by both managing directors. Is there a supported way to output multiple Person authors, or is SASWP currently limited to a single author?
4. Referencing existing entities
   We already created separate Person schemas for both managing directors and an Organization schema for the company. Is there a way to reference these existing entities (via @id) instead of creating new author/editor objects every time?

At the moment everything works, but it feels like SASWP generates new objects instead of connecting the existing ones, so the structured data becomes fragmented.

Thanks again for your help and your patience! I really appreciate it.

That’s it for today, I promise. 😊