Planning Aliases

Aliases are alternate names, descriptions, languages, or other items that help define dimensions. You can assign aliases to accounts, currencies, entities, scenarios, periods, versions, years, and user-defined dimension members.

If a base dimension, such as Entity, has an active association with the Alias dimension, and an entity member has an alias defined for the selected alias table, the alias is displayed in the Alias field in the Planning category. When applications are deployed to Planning, child members of the Alias dimension become Alias Tables, and must include a member named Default. Alias names must follow naming requirements described in Naming Restrictions for Dimensions, Members, and Aliases.