Specifying a Default Alias Table, and Setting Member and Alias Display Options

If you create alias tables with aliases for Account, Currency, Entity, Scenario, Period, Version, Years, and user-defined dimensions and members, you can select a default alias table for the application. Users can set preferences for which set of aliases (stored in an alias table) to use for displaying member and dimension names.

  To select the application’s default alias table:

  1. Select Administration, then Application, then Settings.

  2. Select Current Application Defaults, and then select Application Settings.

  3. In Alias Table, select a default alias table.

  4. In Member Name\Alias Display, select the option that enables the kind of member data to be displayed on the Member Selector throughout your application:

    • Default—The data determined by the form, grid, or dimension settings

    • Member name —Just member names

    • Alias—Just member aliases, if defined

    • Member name : Alias—Names followed by aliases, if defined

    • Alias:Member name—Alias, if defined, followed by the names

  5. Click Save or Reset.