Dataform source declaration on Bigquery

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I'm using the dataform on the GCP console. I've created a definitions/sources/declaration.js file where I call the built-in js function declare() to reference tables on other BigQuery projects. Is there a way of defining an alias to a table declaration that could be used as reference on the ref function in the .sqlx files (instead of hard coding the table name)? Ex:

// definitions/sources/declaration.js
declare({
   database: <table_database>,
   schema:   <table_schema>,
   name:     <table_name>,
   alias:    <declaration_alias_name>
})

// definitions/tables_creation/final_table01.sqlx

select
   *
from ${ref("<declaration_alias_name>")}

This would be useful if a table_name changed, because it would be necessary to change only the declaration file and not all the .sqlx that use that reference.

A way extract and save the table_name of a declaration to a variable would also work.

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