I recently noticed that the beloved Logger transformer – number 49 on the popularity list, as of this writing – also has a very interesting alias.
Behold,.. the Lumberjack transformer!
Next time you are debugging your workflow, why don't you try throwing some Lumberjacks at the problem?
Which has me wondering... Are there any other aliases out there which are equally amusing? Or what transformer do you insist referring by its alias rather than its "proper" name? What alias do you want to see!?
For aliases, it depends on what you want.
- If you want just a list of the current aliases, that would be fairly easy to create (I can just skim through the transformers file).
- If you want an unofficial way to add aliases, that wouldn't be too hard (eg create a workspace to read a list of aliases and insert them into the transformers file). That could even be a future challenge.
- If you want an official way to add aliases, then go and vote up an idea for that to happen (I though there was an idea, but I can't find it - anyone have a link?)
For other sticky items - I'm happy to help there. I can just make interesting questions sticky, or new articles, or anything needing crowdsourcing. Just let me know. I'm open to suggestions.
The link to the idea is in my comment that you replied to.
The idea is to open up the list in the Options menu (kind of like the connections file).
Erik
Attached is what I believe to be the current list of aliases: aliaslist.txt
134 transformers have aliases - although some of these (eg the CenterOfGravityReplacer) are already an alias (so an alias can have an alias)
fyi @1spatialdave
(sorry, tagged the wrong 1spatial person at first!)
The link to the idea is in my comment that you replied to.
The idea is to open up the list in the Options menu (kind of like the connections file).
Erik