Hello and welcome to our blog! What can we do for you? Are you looking for further technical information or step-by-step instructions to our products? Or would you like to read the latest news on mscrm-addons? Please feel free to browse our blog for detailed information and to share our posts! https://www.mscrm-addons.com/Bloghttps://www.mscrm-addons.com/Blog/PostId/10148/how-to-shorten-an-alias-alias-is-longer-than-128-characters*General*,DCP 2016,DocumentsCorePack (DCP)Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:51:44 GMT<p style="text-align: justify;">This article outlines how to shorten an alias in DocumentsCorePack-TemplateDesigner when&nbsp;an error message appears that says: "<span style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Alias is longer than 128 characters"</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Should you get an error that your alias is longer than 128 characters, please do the following steps.<br /> Please note that the 128 character limitation is not from our side but is a standard limitation from CRM.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Open your relationships by editing them using the pencil symbol and navigate to <g class="gr_ gr_24 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="24" data-gr-id="24">fetchXML</g>:</p> <div class=" data-plugin-options="> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"> <a title=" configure relationship" href="/Portals/0/Blog/How_to_shorten_an_alias/Figure1.png"> <img alt=" configure relationship " width="40%" class="img-responsive" src="/Portals/0/Blog/How_to_shorten_an_alias/Figure1.png" /> </a> </div> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"> <em>Figure 1: Configure the relationship </em> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span>In the FetchXML View search for the long alias names that need to be shortened due to the character limitation from Dynamics 365:</span></p> <div class=" data-plugin-options="> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"> <a title=" FetchXML View " href="/Portals/0/Blog/How_to_shorten_an_alias/Figure2.png"> <img alt=" FetchXML View " width="40%" class="img-responsive" src="/Portals/0/Blog/How_to_shorten_an_alias/Figure2.png" /> </a> </div> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"> <em>Figure 2: FetchXML View </em> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span>Give it a short, descriptive name, only change the alias tag:</span></p> <div class=" data-plugin-options="> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"> <a title=" changed FetchXML View " href="/Portals/0/Blog/How_to_shorten_an_alias/Figure3.png"> <img alt=" changed FetchXML View " width="40%" class="img-responsive" src="/Portals/0/Blog/How_to_shorten_an_alias/Figure3.png" /> </a> </div> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"> <em>Figure 3: changed FetchXML View</em></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span>Switch back to the Designer View and click OK.</span></p> <div class=" data-plugin-options="> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"> <a title=" Designer View " href="/Portals/0/Blog/How_to_shorten_an_alias/Figure4.png"> <img alt=" Designer View " width="40%" class="img-responsive" src="/Portals/0/Blog/How_to_shorten_an_alias/Figure4.png" /> </a> </div> <div class="lightbox" data-plugin-options="{'delegate': 'a', 'type': 'image', 'gallery': {'enabled': false}}"> <em>Figure 4: Designer View </em> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #777777;">Afterward,&nbsp;it is necessary to reinsert all fields from that relationship.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 13px;"><strong><span>That&rsquo;s it!</span></strong><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;We appreciate your feedback! Please share your thoughts by sending an email to<span style="color: #777777;">&nbsp;</span><span style="padding: 0cm; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0077b3;"><a href="mailto:support@mscrm-addons.com">support@mscrm-addons.com</a>.</span></span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>10148