Customize biblatex citations

Question

I'm exploring the capabilities of biblatex. I'm using the following example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=alphabetic,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

Some text about \citet{A01}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}

This results in the following output:

Instead, I'd like to format citations as [Author(2001)] instead of [Auth2001], as illustrated below.

How can I achieve this customized citation? Ideally, I'd like to keep the available natbib commands (currently achieved through natbib=true) and modify my current invocations of \cite as little as possible.

Answer 1

The comment by henrique above hinted me at the correct solution. Switching to biber and using \DeclareLabelalphaTemplate solves the problem. Note that for the case of multiple authors, maxalphanames=1 limits the number of authors that are listed in a citation to 1 and \renewcommand*{\labelalphaothers}{} omits the + that would appear in entries for multiple authors otherwise.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[style=alphabetic,natbib=true,backend=biber,maxalphanames=1]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\renewcommand*{\labelalphaothers}{}

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{A01,
  author = {Author, A. and Bernard, B.},
  year = {2001},
  title = {Alpha},
}
\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\DeclareLabelalphaTemplate{
  \labelelement{
    \field[final]{shorthand}
    \field{labelname}
    \field{label}
  }
  \labelelement{
    \literal{(}
  }
  \labelelement{
    \field{year}
  }
  \labelelement{
    \literal{)}
  }
}

\begin{document}

Some text about \citet{A01}.

\printbibliography

\end{document}