What is the difference between CREATESHORTCUT AND CREATEALIAS 1

[smallredville]

Hello,

Recently I wrote a java program to create a shortcut with LAPI.

I tried both:
CREATESHORTCUT from LAPI_DOCUMENTS
CREATEALIAS from LAPI_DOCUMENTS

as shown in the followings:

if (doc.CreateReferenceEx(volumeID, objectID, -2000, 2000, objName, doc.CREATESHORTCUT, createInfo, objectInfo) ==0){}

if (doc.CreateReferenceEx(volumeID, objectID, -2000, 2000, objName, doc.CREATEALIAS, createInfo, objectInfo) ==0){}

both worked fine...

Just curious what is the main difference between the two then?

Many thanks in advance...

smallredville

 

[appnair]

In old livelink a shortcut was an alias to the original object

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