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What if I reuse alias name
Posted: 27 May 2010 16:48
by serendipity
The alias feature is awesome. Thanks Don! Do you plan to check aliases if by mistake I assign the same alias name to another value? Maybe you can provide another icon (maybe a broken heart) in the AB if the alias name is already taken?
Re: What if I reuse alias name
Posted: 27 May 2010 20:15
by admin
serendipity wrote:The alias feature is awesome. Thanks Don! Do you plan to check aliases if by mistake I assign the same alias name to another value? Maybe you can provide another icon (maybe a broken heart) in the AB if the alias name is already taken?
Currently it will simply overwrite any existing alias of the same name. If that really is a problem I could add a "sure?" prompt. But for now I want to keep it as simple as possible and wait for some real world feedback.
BTW, the blue heart icon does not tell you anything about the existence of an alias -- it just tells you that what you entered
looks like an alias. I can add real time checking later -- will not be notable in performance unless you have many thousand aliases (i.e. unless you are mad) ...
