Aliases provide placeholders for users, groups, locations, and permission sets. When a real value is substituted for a placeholder (alias reference), the alias is said to be resolved. Thus, alias resolution completes the missing information such that the objects and properties dependent on the aliases become available for use.
Alias resolution looks up the appropriate value for an alias name from an alias set. If the alias set name is present in the reference, the process of lookup is straightforward — pick up the value corresponding to the alias name from the specified alias set.
On the other hand, if the alias set name is omitted the Content Server tries to locate an appropriate alias set to look up the alias value. This lookup process utilizes a concept referred to as the scope of alias sets.
An alias scope is the visibility of an alias set for resolving aliases in various situations, including the object using the alias, the context, and the values of other properties...