how to set global alias for a joomla component

Question

can any body tell me how to make a global alias for a joomla! component i want to completely get rid of joomla! components name (k2, virtuemart , etc..)

localhost/component/k2/item/243-3

i created a link to item and it's work perfectly but the items that generated by the plugins does not has alias i will be helpfull even if i can change the component name in the url

Answer 1

If you want to set the alias you need to create a menu item which points to the output of your component. If there is no menu item Joomla will fall back on the component name to create an alias.