# Retrieve item with children sharing the same version name (fallback to “main” if not available)
**URL:** https://community.directus.com/t/retrieve-item-with-children-sharing-the-same-version-name-fallback-to-main-if-not-available/1409
**Category:** Help
**Tags:** api
**Created:** [October 29, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/retrieve-item-with-children-sharing-the-same-version-name-fallback-to-main-if-not-available/1409 "2025-10-29T13:55:58Z")
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### Author:  [@M4rk3tt0](https://community.directus.com/u/M4rk3tt0)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/retrieve-item-with-children-sharing-the-same-version-name-fallback-to-main-if-not-available/1409/1 "2025-10-29T13:55:59Z")
Hi everyone 👋
I’m using the new **versioning** feature in Directus, and I’m wondering if there’s a way to retrieve an item together with its related children that share the same version name.
For example:
Let’s say I have a collection called **Posts** , which has one or more related **Authors**.
Both collections have **versioning enabled**.
If I have a Post with a version named `"test"`, and one or more Authors also have a version named `"test"`, I’d like to retrieve the Post `"test"` **along with its Authors also in version `"test"`**.
If some Authors **don’t have a `"test"` version** , they should fall back to their `"main"` version.
So the desired result would be something like:
- Post → version `"test"`
- Authors → version `"test"` (if available), otherwise `"main"`
Is there currently a way to do this via the API or SDK?
Or would it require a custom endpoint / flow logic to achieve this behavior?
Additionally, it would be a great feature if, when **promoting** a Post version, there was an option to **also promote all related items (like Authors) that share the same version name**.
That way, you could keep the hierarchy of related content consistent across versions without having to manually promote each related item.
Thanks in advance for any guidance 🙏
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### Author:  [@rijkvanzanten](https://community.directus.com/u/rijkvanzanten)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/retrieve-item-with-children-sharing-the-same-version-name-fallback-to-main-if-not-available/1409/2 "2025-10-30T21:07:51Z")
There’s currently no way to retrieve nested items from their own version (either by the same name or another). That being said, we’re currently preparing a big upgrade to the versioning system as a whole. One of the projects within that is exploring the ability to create (and fetch) a “release” that includes multiple items all on a version which should allow for this use case as well 🙂 I’ve linked up this thread to that project internally so we’ll follow-up here when that’s a bit closer to reality!