# Assistant Thread CreateMessage missing "Name" property

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/assistant-thread-createmessage-missing-name-property/656187>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [February 27, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/assistant-thread-createmessage-missing-name-property/656187 "2024-02-27T02:00:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![crickman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/crickman/32/315100_2.png) [@crickman](https://community.openai.com/u/crickman)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/assistant-thread-createmessage-missing-name-property/656187/1 "2024-02-27T02:00:52Z")

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Chat completion allows user message to specify `Name`:

[API Reference - OpenAI API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create)

Assistant API - Create Message does not:

[API Reference - OpenAI API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/messages/createMessage)

This simple change would enable multi-user chat as well as other more subtle semantics.

No reason this can’t align. @OpenAI - Please support user name for assistants.

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