mqtt-topic-qaqc_settings_update.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 title: 'MQTT Topic: qaqc_settings_update'
 ---
 
+
 # `qaqc_settings_update`
 
 #### version 2
@@ -27,9 +28,9 @@ title: 'MQTT Topic: qaqc_settings_update'
 # If all three are not null, temporary_name is ignored.
 <DStream> = {
   "arg_name": <string>              # The argument name in the quality function.
-  "alias": <string>                 # A string alias (aka. speaking name) for this stream [2][3]
-  "sta_thing_id": <number> | null   # ID of the Thing in the sensor things api (STA). [3]
-  "sta_stream_id": <number> | null  # ID of the Datatream in the sensor things api (STA). [3]
+  "alias": <string>                 # A string alias (aka. speaking name) for this stream [2]
+  "sta_thing_id": <number> | null   # ID of the Thing in the sensor things api (STA). 
+  "sta_stream_id": <number> | null  # ID of the Datatream in the sensor things api (STA). 
 }
 ```
 
@@ -44,9 +45,7 @@ title: 'MQTT Topic: qaqc_settings_update'
 
 [1]: The `context_window` must be either a stringified number (e.g. `"5"`) or a datetime-range string (e.g. `"5d12h10ns"`). For allowed units see the `unit` argument in the docs of [pandas.Timedelta](https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.Timedelta.html#pandas-timedelta).
 
-[2]: The alias string is `"T<sta_thing_id>S<sta_stream_id>"` if both are present (neither is `null`), otherwise this is a user-given name.
-
-[3] For `alias`, `sta_thing_id` (TID) and `sta_stream_id` (SID) we have following cases
+[2]: The alias string is `"T<sta_thing_id>S<sta_stream_id>"` if both IDs are present (neither is `null`), otherwise the alias is constructed as a user-given name or a mixture of user-given name and ID. See the following table for all cases. Note that often `sta_thing_id` is referred as TID and `sta_stream_id` as SID. 
 
 | `sta_thing_id` | `sta_stream_id` | `alias`               | example                | Description | 
 | ------         | ------          | -------               | -------                | --------    |