Favorites in Connect to Server

I have several remote computers that I access periodically. I would like to use Connect to Server to access them. As far as I can tell, I can only save the IP address and that is not very useful because I don't remember which IP address corresponds to which computer. Is there a way to change the name that appears in the Favorites box to something more useful?

You know, when I looked before, there wasn't a favorite added, but sure enough, one is put in there - maybe the Finder just didn't update fast enough. I have to say though, that is the first time in a long while that I've seen anything placed in the Favorites folder (well, except for what I put in there - I keep an alias on the dock). It still looks like it just gets the server location for use in the dialog.

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Guillaume is totally correct. The display order of enterprise templates is by the date they were created. I have tested this on a Project Server 2013 system that has the latest Cumulative Updates applied. The problem is that in the
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