page alias seems not to work with bureaucracy forms

[tillbiskup]

In a fresh wiki install with only the standard plugins installed trying to use the page alias for bureaucracy forms as described on the plugin's wiki homepage

https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:data#bureaucracy_plugin_and_type_aliases

seems not to work. Only a bare textbox is shown, no page suggestions.

Server log files don't give any hint, either.

Any ideas what could be missing?

[saerdnaer]

My error was to assume that you can alias existing fields. e.g. I created an alias publish with allowed values yes, no. The solution was to rename the field in the wikipage to publish_bool and create a type alias bool with allowed values yes, no.