NameMapping MappedObjects and aliases trees

Aliases are just that... aliases.  They are a naming and hierarchal structure wrapped around the actual mapping that are used within your test cases.  You can have an object mapped as

NameMapping.Sys.MyApp.Form1.Panel2.Table1.Cell2.textbox1

and it can have an Alias of

Aliases.MyApp.MainForm.textboxEditField

They can be the same thing.

The way it works, in simple terms, is that your test case reads the Alias and uses the associated mapping to do the identification.  The Alias name, even the mapped name, don't have to match what the developers gave it.  The hierachy of parent/child does need to be maintained but can be "collapsed" in the Aliases.  But what does the identification is not the name in the NameMapping or Aliases tree but a combination of the parent/child relationship and the identifying properties (class name, caption, etc).