# Renaming fields with aliases in Connectors - The Weekly Wisdom - Edition #12

**URL:** https://community.apollographql.com/t/renaming-fields-with-aliases-in-connectors-the-weekly-wisdom-edition-12/9307
**Category:** Weekly Wisdom
**Tags:** odyssey, connectors, weekly-wisdom
**Created:** [July 24, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/renaming-fields-with-aliases-in-connectors-the-weekly-wisdom-edition-12/9307 "2025-07-24T01:40:40Z")
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### Author: ![Michelle\_Mabuyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/michelle_mabuyo/32/80_2.png) [@Michelle\_Mabuyo](https://community.apollographql.com/u/Michelle_Mabuyo)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/renaming-fields-with-aliases-in-connectors-the-weekly-wisdom-edition-12/9307/1 "2025-07-24T01:40:40Z")

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### 🎓 Welcome to The Weekly Wisdom

**🗓 Edition #12 - 24 Jul 2025**  
**🏷 Topic tags - #Connectors #odyssey**  
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Hey all! 👋 @Michelle_Mabuyo here from the Apollo Education team. I’m a Developer Educator and I build courses for Odyssey, our official learning platform.

I’m back for the next edition of a multi-part series to teach you the basics of Apollo Connectors: a powerful way to bring existing REST APIs into your graph, all through configuration in the schema.

### 💡This week’s learning: Renaming fields with aliases in Connectors

When your REST API returns a field like `description` but your schema expects `tagline`, you can map it like this

```graphql

selection: """
tagline: description

"""

```

This works for nested fields too! For example, simplifying `tagId` to `id` to follow GraphQL schema naming conventions.

```graphql
selection: """
tags: tags { 
     id: tagId
     name
}

```

Use this to keep your schema clean and client-friendly, without needing to change your backend.

### 🔎 Want to go deeper?

Practice this hands-on in Lesson 3 of “[Expressions in Connectors: Mapping and Transforms](https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/connectors-mapping-and-transforms/03-accessing-and-renaming)” on Odyssey.

**[Take the course](https://www.apollographql.com/tutorials/connectors-mapping-and-transforms)**

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### 💬 Share your thoughts in the thread below ⬇

How often do you run into mismatched field names?

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### Author: ![Chauntay\_Lawson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/chauntay_lawson/32/5424_2.png) [@Chauntay\_Lawson](https://community.apollographql.com/u/Chauntay_Lawson)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/renaming-fields-with-aliases-in-connectors-the-weekly-wisdom-edition-12/9307/2 "2025-07-24T01:40:50Z")

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### Author: ![Chauntay\_Lawson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/chauntay_lawson/32/5424_2.png) [@Chauntay\_Lawson](https://community.apollographql.com/u/Chauntay_Lawson)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/renaming-fields-with-aliases-in-connectors-the-weekly-wisdom-edition-12/9307/3 "2025-07-24T16:26:55Z")

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### Author: ![Chauntay\_Lawson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.apollographql.com/chauntay_lawson/32/5424_2.png) [@Chauntay\_Lawson](https://community.apollographql.com/u/Chauntay_Lawson)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.apollographql.com/t/renaming-fields-with-aliases-in-connectors-the-weekly-wisdom-edition-12/9307/4 "2025-07-24T16:27:17Z")

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