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Managing Aliases

Aliases are used to manage access to AliasLibrary and design-time library resources. The aliases you create are saved in your user profile and are available to all the projects you create on your machine. Other developers can export aliases so they can be imported into other projects.

Creating an Alias

Use these steps to create an alias that will later be used in an AliasLibrary or design-time library. An alias can also be created directly in an AliasLibrary or LibraryBuilder resource.

1.	Click Edit > Preferences.

2.	Click the File Aliases tab.

3.	Click New.

4.	Under the Alias column, double-click and provide an alias name.

5.	Under the File Path column, double-click and navigate to the resource location. Select the name and click Open.

6.

Click OK.

The following diagram shows defined alias.

Figure 32 Alias Defined

Deleting an Alias

Use these steps to delete an alias. After deleting an alias it is removed from your alias list.

1.	Click Edit > Preferences.

2.	Click the File Aliases tab.

3.	Click Delete.

4.

Click OK.

Exporting an Alias

1.	Click Edit > Preferences.

2.	Click the File Aliases tab.

3.	Click Export to save the alias list so others can use it.

4.	Navigate to a location in the file system that others can access.

5.	Provide a name for the alias.

6.	Click Save.

Importing an Alias

1.	Click Edit > Preferences.

2.	Click the File Aliases tab.

3.	Click Import to add a previously exported alias list to your preferences.

4.	Navigate to the location of the alias file and select it.

5.	Click Open.

6.

Click OK.

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