Creating an Alias

Aliases are Corezoid objects, which allow replacing a numeric process identifier with a static symbolic name. Aliases can be used to interact with Processes and State diagrams both in the nodes and via the Corezoid API.

Creating an Alias

To create an alias:

1. Go to Aliases section
2. Click the Create button;
3. Enter a name, a short name, a description and link the alias to a process or a state diagram.

Requirements:

1. The name and short name are mandatory for creating an alias,
2. Maximum length of the name is 255 characters.
3. The maximum length of a short name is 128 characters, the minimum length is 3 characters.
4. For a short name you can use Latin letters of lower case (a-z) and a short dash (-).
5. Maximum length of description - 2000 characters