What is the best way to handle/document name changes within Laserfiche?
Are you looking for ways to rename large numbers of documents? That's something you could do with Workflow or an SDK application. Or do you mean something else?
Something else - we have employee files, for example, and if staff have name changes - what is the best way to track that? Have an alias field perhaps?
It really depends on how you are using employee names. For instance, if it's just organizational, minimize the number of places the name occurs. So the employee name would be on a folder and not any of the documents inside, and accommodating a name change just requires a folder rename. If it's more retrieval, do you need to be able to search by both the old name and the new name? That suggests that the two (or more) names need to be on equal footing, which means a multi-valued field with all of the valid names in it.