Semantic aliases can be defined for numerous different elements like object types, classes, value lists, property definitions, workflows, states, named access control lists and external sources.

By using semantic aliases, you can identify metadata structure elements with a textual identifier, without relying on the numeric IDs. This is especially useful for applications and scripts that need to work in more than one vault. For example, you could use the API call GetPropertyIDByAlias( "MyApp.CustomerName" ) to find out the ID of the property definition that has "MyApp.CustomerName" as one of its semantic aliases.

An example of the semantic aliases list (highlighted with the green rectangle) for an object type in M-Files Admin.

SemanticAliases Members