Help25:Menus Menu Item Contact Category

Used to show all of the published Contacts in a given Category. Note that Contact Categories are separate from Article Categories. Contacts and Contact Categories are entered by selecting Components/Contacts. See Contact Manager and Category Manager for more information.

Menu Item Contacts: List Contacts in a Category

How To Access

To create a new Category List Menu Item:

• Select Menus → [name of the menu] from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation (for example, Menus → Main Menu).
• Click New to create a new menu item or click on an existing item to edit.
• Click the Menu Item Type Select button and then click the List contacts in a category link under Contacts.

To edit an existing Category List Menu Item, click its Title in Menu Manager: Menu Items.

Description

Used to show contacts belonging to a specific Category in a list layout. Chunk25:Help screen column header List Layout

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Column Headers

Common Options

See Menu Item Manager: New Menu Item for help on fields common to all Menu Item types, including Details, Link Type Options, Page Display Options, Metadata Options, and Module Assignments for this Menu Item.

Required Settings

This layout requires that you select a category. This is done in the list box shown below.

• Choose a category. Select one Category from the list box.

Category Options

The Category Options control the way that category information is shown in the layout. The Category List Layout has the following Category Options, as shown below.

• Category Title. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the title of the category.

• Category Description. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Description of this category, which can optionally be displayed in the front-end.

• Category Image. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the category image.

• Subcategory Levels. (Use Global/All/1-5) The number of levels of subcategories to show in the layout. Select All to show all levels in the subcategory hierarchy.

• Empty Categories. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the categories that contain no content items or subcategories.

• No Articles Message. (Use Global/Hide/Show) If set to Show, the message 'There are no articles in this category' will display when a category contains no articles.

• Subcategories Descriptions. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the category description of subcategories.

• # Articles in Category. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the count of articles in each category.

• Page Subheading. Optional text to show as a page subheading.

List Layouts

List Layout Options control the appearance of the list layout.

• Display #. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the Display # control that allows the user to select the number of items to show in the list. An example is shown below.
  
  If there are more items than this number, you can use the page navigation buttons (Start, Prev, Next, End, and page numbers) to navigate between pages. Note that if you have a large number of items, it may be helpful to use the Filter options, located above the column headings, to limit which items display.

• Filter Field. The Filter Field creates a text field where a user can enter a field to be used to filter the articles shown in the list. An example of how this looks in the front-end layout is shown below.
  

The possible options for this (in the back-end menu item edit) are shown below.

• Use Global: Use the value from Article Manager→Options.
• Hide: Don't show a filter field.
• Title: Filter on article title.
• Author: Filter on the author's name.
• Hits: Filter on the number of article hits.

• Table Headings. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Table Headings show a heading above the article list, as shown below.
  
  If set to Show, this heading will show about the list. Otherwise the list will show with no headings.

• Show Date. This option allows you to show a date in the list. The options are as follows.
  

• Use Global: Use the value set in Article Manager→Options.
• Hide: Don't show any date.
• Created: Show the created date.
• Modified: Show the date of the last modification.
• Created: Show the start publishing date.

• Date Format. Optional format string to control the format of the date (if shown). If left blank, the date will use the DATE_FORMAT_LC1 format from the language file (for example, "D M Y" for "31 December 2012" or "m-d-y" for "12-31-12"). See PHP Date Documentation for more information.

• Show Hits in List. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the number of hits for this item.

• Show Author in List. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the name of the author.

• Category Order. Order of Categories in this Layout. The following options are available.
  
  • Use Global: Use the default value from the component options screen.
  • No Order: Articles are ordered only by the Article Order, without regard to Category.
  • Title Alphabetical: Categories are displayed in alphabetical order (A to Z)
  • Title Reverse Alphabetical: Categories are displayed in reverse alphabetical order (Z to A)
  • Category Manager Order: Categories are ordered according to the Order column entered in the Category Manager.

• Article Order. Order of articles in this Layout. The following options are available.
  
  • Use Global: Use the default value from the component options screen.
  • Featured Articles Order: Articles are ordered according to the Order column entered in Article Manager: Featured Article.
  • Most recent first: Articles are displayed starting with the most recent and ending with the oldest.
  • Oldest first: Articles are displayed starting with the oldest and ending with the most recent.
  • Title Alphabetical: Articles are displayed by Title in alphabetical order (A to Z)
  • Title Reverse Alphabetical: Articles are displayed by Title in reverse alphabetical order (Z to A)
  • Author Alphabetical: Articles are displayed by Author in alphabetical order (A to Z)
  • Author Reverse Alphabetical: Articles are displayed by Author in reverse alphabetical order (Z to A)
  • Most Hits: Articles are displayed by the number of hits, starting with the one with the most hits and ending with the one with the least hits
  • Least Hits: Articles are displayed by the number of hits, starting with the one with the least hits and ending with the one with the most hits
  • Article Manager Order: Articles are ordered according to the Order column entered in the Article Manager.

• Date for Ordering. The date used when articles are sorted by date. The following options are available.
  • Use Global: Use the default value from the component options screen.
  • Created: Use the article created date.
  • Modified: Use the article modified date.
  • Published: Use the article start publishing date.

• Pagination. Hide or Show Pagination support. Pagination provides page links at the bottom of the page that allow the User to navigate to additional pages. These are needed if the Articles will not fit on one page. An example is shown below.
  
  The following options are available.
  • Use Global: Use the default value from the component options screen.
  • Auto: Pagination links shown if needed.
  • Show: Pagination links shown if needed.
  • Hide: Pagination links not shown. Note: In this case, Users will not be able to navigate to additional pages.

• Pagination Results. Hide or Show the current page number and total pages (e.g., "Page 1 of 2") at the bottom of each page. Use Global will use the default value from the component options.

• # Articles to List. The number of articles to include in the list. Select the desired number from the list box.

Article Options

The Category List Layout has the following Article Options, as shown below. These options determine how the articles will show in the list layout.

In addition to Yes/No or Hide/Show, these options allow the following settings.

• Use Global: Use the default value from Article Manager Options.

The Article Options are as follows.

• Show Title. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show the Article's Title.

• Linked Titles. (Use Global/No/Yes). If the Article's Title is shown, whether to show it as a link to the article.

• Show Intro Text. (Hide/Show) Hide or Show an Article's Intro Text when the 'Read more...' link is selected. Intro Text is the part of the Article before a 'Read more...' break. If this parameter is 'Show', when the User selects the 'Read more...' link, the entire article will display, including the Intro Text. If this parameter is 'Hide', when the User selects the 'Read more...' link, only the part of the Article after the 'Read more...' link will display.

• Show Category. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show the Article's Category.

• Link Category. (Use Global/No/Yes). If the Article's Category is shown, whether to show it as a link to a Category layout (list or blog) for that Category.

• Show Parent. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show the Article's Parent Category.

• Link Parent. (Use Global/No/Yes). If the Article's Parent Category is shown, whether to show it as a link to a Category layout (list or blog) for that Category.

• Show Author. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to show the author of the Article.

• Link Author. (Use Global/No/Yes). If the Article's author is shown, whether to show it as a link to a Contact layout for that author. Note that the author must be set up as a Contact in Contact Manager: Edit.

• Show Create Date. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show the Article's create date.

• Show Modify Date. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show the Article's modify date.

• Show Publish Date. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show the Article's start publishing date.

• Show Navigation. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show a navigation link (for example, Next or Previous article) when you drill down to the article.

• Show Voting. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show the a voting icon for the article.

• Show Read More. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Whether or not to show a "Read More" link to allow a drill down to the entire article.

• Show Title with Read More. (Use Global/Hide/Show). If set to Show, the Article's title will show in the "Read More" button.

• Show Icons. (Use Global/Hide/Show). If set to Show, Print and Email will use icons instead of text.

• Show Print Icon. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Show or Hide the Print Article button.

• Show Email Icon. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Show or Hide the Email Article button.

• Show Hits. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Show or Hide the number of times the article has been hit (displayed by a user).

• Show Unauthorised Links. (Use Global/No/Yes). If Yes, the Intro Text for restricted articles will show. Clicking on the "Read More" link will require users to log in to view the full article content.

Integration Options

The Featured Articles layout has the following Integration Options.

These determine whether a news feed will be available for the page and what information it will show.

• Show Feed Link. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to Hide or Show a link to a news feed (RSS Feed). If set to Show, a Feed Link will show up as a feed icon in the address bar of most modern browsers).

• For each feed item show. (Use Global/Intro Text/Full Text) If Intro Text, only the article's intro text will show in the feed. Otherwise, the entire text of the article will show.

Toolbar

At the top right you will see the toolbar:

The functions are:

• Save. Saves the menu item and stays in the current screen.
• Save & Close. Saves the menu item and closes the current screen.
• Save & New. Saves the menu item and keeps the editing screen open and ready to create another menu item.
• Save as Copy. Saves your changes to a copy of the current menu item. Does not affect the current menu item. This toolbar icon is not shown if you are creating a new menu item.
• Cancel/Close. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.
• Help. Opens this help screen.

Quick Tips

• The Category List layout is a convenient way to list a compact directory of contacts in a category that can include filtering and searching.

Related Information

• To create a new Category see Category Manager: Add or Edit.
• To create a new menu see Menus Menu Manager.