Aliases

Aliases are alternate names for the same Object. Add NYC and The Big Apple to an Object titled New York City, and searching for either name finds it, while the Object keeps one canonical title.

Add an alias

1. On the Object page, open the Customize menu.
2. Choose Add Aliases.
3. Type an alternate name and confirm it.

Aliases appear as removable chips. Blank entries and duplicates that differ only in capitalization are ignored. Once an Object has aliases, its alias row stays on the page.

Find and link by alias

Aliases are part of the workspace search index. When a result matched an alias rather than the title, the Search page labels it Alias match. Wikilinks also resolve aliases, so [[NYC]] can find New York City.

Aliases are not tags

An alias names the Object itself; a tag categorizes it. NYC is an alias of New York City, while travel is a Tag linked to it. Tags can have aliases too.

Renaming a property on a Type also keeps its old name as an alias, but that’s a schema alias for the property, separate from the aliases on an Object.

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