Thank you for your time.
I think I will end up doing like I have been doing now that I know that it is a commonly used method. That is to define a constant in the mediator that corresponds to the view components mediator.
I wish I could figure out how to make an FDT template for a constant. It would be cool to be able to add a constant template and then as you write the constant's name (SOME_NOTIFICATION), FDT would write "someNotification" or event just "some_notification" for you in the value of the constant
Best,
Sammi