Applying Aliases

When browsing your Summaries, you may want to group items together or represent some Summary items with more meaningful names. It is possible to perform these functions using .

For example, if you are viewing the Users contained within your User Summary, you may want to show the users actual name, or a shorten name to what is actually contained in the summary.

Some example Aliases are provided with the Vantage Ultimate install file you downloaded.

For this tutorial, please open the 'Tutorial.Aliases' file that has been installed with the application. To do this:

  • Go to the Aliases dock by clicking the Aliases tab at the top of the screen.

  • Click the Open Aliases link in the Aliases task pad.

  • Navigate to My Documents\WebSpy\Vantage Ultimate 2.2\Aliases\Tutorial.Aliases and click Open.

  • Click Yes when asked to Merge these aliases with your existing aliases.

Try this: View the list of sample aliases:

  • Go to the Aliases dock by clicking the Aliases tab at the top of the screen.

  • Select any alias on the left to view the Alias Groups and Items in the right hand pane. The Alias Group is the name that will be displayed when any of the Group's Items match a Summary Item. Configuring this list of Aliases is explained in the topic Configuring Aliases.

Any of these aliases can be applied to your Summaries in the Summaries dock using the Apply Aliases button on the toolbar in the right hand pane.

Try this: To apply Aliases to your Summaries:

  • Return to the Summaries dock by clicking the Summaries tab at the top of the screen.

  • Ensuring you have the 'My Storage' Analysis open in and select the User Summary in the Summary Tree.

  • Select 'Departments' in the Aliases task pad. All the Users are now represented by Department Names. Any Users that do not match a Department Name are grouped into the 'Unknown' Alias Group.

Aliases only apply to specific Summaries. This is configured on the Aliases dock and is explained in the topic Configuring Aliases. When browsing your Summaries, only Aliases that apply to the Summary you are viewing can be selected in the Aliases task pad.

Once an alias has been applied, you can into it as you can with any other Summary item.