Referencing Aliases

When an alias needs to be used as a placeholder its reference is stored using a % prefix. This is a way to distinguish an alias from other values. An alias is referenced as %alias_set_name.alias_name or %alias_name. When the alias set name is omitted from a reference, the alias name is searched for in one or more alias sets according to the alias resolution rules, which are described later. The following figure shows how an alias named interviewer is referenced in another object:

A permission set template (also known as ACL template) is a special type of object that uses aliases. A permission set that contains one or more alias references to users or groups in the r_accessor_name property is known as permission set template. The type of a permission set is identified by the dm_acl.acl_class property, which can have one of the following values:

Permission Set Type	Description
0	Private permission set
1	Permission set template
2	Instance of permission set...