Retrieving models/tests by alias doesn't work for all users

[apdavison]

This is because retrieving by alias uses queries that are stored in the "model" space, and so only accessible to model curators.

This may be fixed in future, i.e. released queries will be executable by anyone (Oli said: "technically speaking, queries are indeed normal resources and therefore can be released and are readable for the end user e.g. through the instances api - but we need to review the queries endpoint to make the query execution happening (so far we've always assumed queries to be read from "in progress" in a Slack conversation, early March 2023).

For now, the best solution would probably be to generate the queries (or read from file) within the VF API.

[apdavison]

The workaround until this is fixed is to retrieve by ID