Giving alias for source tables in Dataform

Question

I want to give alias to source tables in Dataform I declare datasources as follow in .js file: declaration({ database: "DATABASE_a", schema: "SCHEMA_a", name: "user", })

I want to give every data source an alias like finance_user so when I reference it in a query in Dataform as SELECT * FROM ${ref("finance_user")}

instead of SELECT * FROM ${ref("user")}

This for differentiating sources with similar names

I tried declaration({ database: "DATABASE_a", schema: "SCHEMA_a", name: "user", alias: "finance_user })

• Community: Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking.
• Hossam Mohamed Dergham: to clarify, In Dataform, source tables (Tables which is being used in models in dataform) need to be referenced in a way that allows dataform understand dependencies. I use the declaration method mentioned before where I created a js file for all data sources and used rhe previous code to declare each table What I'm asking about is if there is a way to give an alias to these source tables instead of calling them by their names like the feature that DBT currently offers or not