Hi, may I suggest (for my benefit and others) a new Forum Category? Let's call it "Dumb Questions", only kind of joking here.. as I believe that there is no such thing as a Dumb Question - except for the question that is not asked.

Here is my dumb question for the day:

Can you please explain what an 'Alias' is in J-Cook / Tables / Wizards, and how it might be used in building a Component?

I have not used an Alias in my project because I do not know what it is or if I should be using it.

Thank you!

Ed.

There are no dumb questions. May be considered dumb the questions that already have been answered 10 times and explained in videos tutorials !!!

Your question is important and have not been asked yet.

We call alias, a formated string that is composed only of lowercase letters, no spaces, no quotes...
If you look in the url of this topic, you can see : what-is-the-alias-for
It comes from the title : What is the alias for ?

Well, the wizard allows you to automatically save the title (for example), in a such format string.
For the moment it does not use it in the url rewritting. In fact, the alias is not used for nothing.
Maybe you was searching for a special functionality, but there isn't.


Once your alias field beeing initializated, you can reuse it for any purpose you want (url, file name, folder name, etc...)