With Magnolia 5.7 - it will be possible to reference fields (in forms within dialogs, apps, etc.) by names.
The (now) "old style" to reference the field by its fully qualified class name of the definition class will still work.

For a related dev ticket e.g. see MGNLUI-3882, DEV-338

Docu tasks:

• Announce it on the release notes
• Create a new page which explains the concept (and that still both will be possible)
• Search for doc pages dealing with this - and to start with link to that new page

See DEV-401 for the complete list of changed field names.

Video of the demo:
afp://file.magnolia-cms.com/All/Product Development/Knowledge Transfer/2018/20180528-field-alias_Ilguen.mp4