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2. Click on the New Alias icon, which appears as .
3. In the tree browse where the tag that will be referenced is located, select the desired device name or group name.
The fully qualified path for the tag item will be shown in the grayed Mapped to.. field.
4. Next, enter an alias name that will represent this complex tag reference. It is this alias name that now can be used in
the client application to address the tag found in the server (instead of the path).
Here, the complex topic and item name of _ddedata!Channel1.Device1.Machine1.Cell2.ToolDepth can be replaced
by using the alias Mac1Cell2. If this is applied to the example above, the DDE link in the application can now be
entered as shown below.