{"id":238,"date":"2026-04-01T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:10:02","slug":"renaming-a-container","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/overlaps-documentation\/configuration\/container-permissions\/renaming-a-container\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaming a Container"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/config-permissions-container-rename.png\" alt=\"Renaming a Container\" class=\"wp-image-239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/config-permissions-container-rename.png 602w, https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/config-permissions-container-rename-300x8.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often Active Directory containers are named in a utilitarian way which may make sense from an Administration point of view but may be confusing of unclear to regular users. For this purpose, OVERLAPS supports the ability to give containers an alternative name which will show in OVERLAPS only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This does not affect the container itself and does not make any change to Active Directory, it is purely cosmetic and only visible within OVERLAPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To \u201crename\u201d a container, select it from the tree view, then click the <strong>Rename<\/strong> button next to its Distinguished Name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"27\" src=\"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/overlaps-ui-browser-renamed-container-1.png\" alt=\"A screenshot showing the visual difference of a renamed container.\" class=\"wp-image-432\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An Example Renamed Container<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renamed containers will show as blue in OVERLAPS, and hovering over it will reveal its original name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often Active Directory containers are named in a utilitarian way which may make sense from an Administration point of view but may be confusing of unclear to regular users. For this purpose, OVERLAPS supports the ability to give containers an alternative name which will show in OVERLAPS only. This does not affect the container itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/433"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/overlaps.co.uk\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}