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Such coding style has the disadvantage that there may be more than one custom field with Reported User name. In such case SIL takes into account the first custom field resolved by name in such case. Therefore, SIL has created its own custom field naming system, one that is independent of the IDs attributed by Jira to custom fields and one which that can provide the much better distinction of the custom fields names. The feature is called SIL aliases, and allows you to alias any custom field with a friendly name. Let's see how this simple example looks with aliases.
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Creating aliases is a simple task of editing a properties file named 'sil.aliases', which that is placed in Kepler Home directory. This file must contain pairs in the form alias=customfield_id. For our example above, we should edit it and put an entry like:
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