Joomla! Documentation™

Description

The Featured Contacts menu item type is used to show a list of featured contacts.

How To Access

To create a new Featured Contacts Menu Item:

• Select Menus → [name of the menu] from the Administrator menu (for example, Menus → Main Menu). Then...
  • Select the New button in the Toolbar. Then...
  • Select the Menu Item Type Select button
  • In the modal dialog select the Contacts item to open a list and then select the Featured Contacts item.

To edit an existing Featured Contacts menu item:

• Select its Title in the Menus: Items list.

Screenshot

Form Fields

• Menu Title: The title that will display for this menu item.

• Alias. The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla will fill in a default value Title in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces. Learn more.

Details Tab

Left Panel

• Menu Item Type. The Menu Item Type selected when this menu item was created. This can be one of the core menu item types or a menu item type provided by an installed extension.

• Link. The system-generated link for this menu item. This field cannot be changed and is for information only.

• Target Window. Select from the drop-down list.

• Template Style. Select from the drop-down list.

Right Panel

• Menu. Shows which menu the link will appear in.

• Parent Item. The parent menu item for this menu item. Used to determine whether a Menu Item is a top-level item or a submenu item. Select 'Menu Item Root' (the default value) if this is a top-level Menu Item. Otherwise, select the Menu Item that is this item's parent.

• Ordering. You can change the order of an item within a list as follows:
  • If the list Filter Options include a Position filter select the desired Position. This will limit the list to items that are assigned to that Position.
  • Select the Ordering icon in the Table heading to make it the active ordering item. The ordering icons in each row will change from light grey to dark grey and the pointer will change to a drag arrow on hover.
  • Select one of the Ordering icons and drag it up or down to change the position of that row in the list. The items will display in the new order within the Position.

• Status. The published status of the item.

• Start Publishing. Date and time to start publishing. Use this field if you want to enter content ahead of time and then have it published automatically at a future time.

• Finish Publishing. Date and time to finish publishing. Use this field if you want to have content automatically changed to Unpublished state at a future time (for example, when it is no longer applicable).

• Default Page. If Yes, this menu item is the default or home page for the site. There must be exactly one menu item set as the default page. You can change the default page in two ways:
  1. Click on the Home column of the desired menu item in the Menus: Items screen.
  2. Open the menu item for the new default page and change the Default Page setting to Yes.

• Access. The viewing Access Level for this item.

• Language. Item language.

• Note. This is normally for the site administrator's use (for example, to document information about this item) and does not show in the Frontend of the site.

List Layouts Tab

List Layout Options control the appearance of the list layout.

• Display Select. (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 of how it is shown in the Front End (website) view 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.

• Table Headings. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Table Headings show a heading above a list, like generic heading image shown below.

If set to Show, this heading will show above the list. If set to Hide, the list will show with no headings.

• Position. Show or hide a Position column in the list of Contacts.
• Email. Set to control the Email's display in list.

The following options are available.

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Show in list.
• Hide: Do not show in list.

• Phone. Set to control the Phone's display in list.

The following options are available.

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Show in list.
• Hide: Do not show in list.

• Mobile. Set to control the Mobile's display in list.

The following options are available.

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Show in list.
• Hide: Do not show in list.

• Fax. Set to control the Fax's display in list.

The following options are available.

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Show in list.
• Hide: Do not show in list.

• City or Suburb. Set to control the City or Suburb's display in list.

The following options are available.

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Show in list.
• Hide: Do not show in list.

• State or County. Set to control the State or County's display in list.

The following options are available.

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Show in list.
• Hide: Do not show in list.

• Country. Set to control the Country's display in list.

The following options are available.

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Show in list.
• Hide: Do not show in list.

• 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 listed items 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.

Form Tab

Form Options control the appearance of the list layout.

Common Contact Form Fields are:

• Tags. Display the contact's Tags.
• Contact Information. Display the contact's Contact Information.
• vCard. Display the contact's vCard.
• Miscellaneous Information. Display the contact's Miscellaneous Information.
• User Articles. Display the contact's User Articles.
• # Articles to List. Display the contact's # Articles to List.
• Contact Links. Display the contact's Contact Links.
• Link <letter> Label. <A to E> Labels (5) to override shown link's label.

Mail Options Tab

Contact Mail Options control the appearance of a Contact's  → Contact Form if it is enabled.

• Show Contact Form. Display the contact's contact form.

It has the following options available:

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Display this.
• Hide: Do not display.

• Send Copy to Submitter. Display the a check box to allow a Submitter to send a copy of email to themselves.

It has the following options available:

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Display this.
• Hide: Do not display.

• Session Check. Check for the existence of session cookie. Users without cookies enabled will not be able to send emails.

It has the following options available:

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Yes: Check for session cookie.
• No: Do not check for session cookie.

• Custom Reply. Turn on or off the custom message reply to contact form's submitter, allowing for Plugins to handle integration with other systems.

It has the following options available:

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Yes: Send an automated reply email.
• No: Do not send an automated reply email.

• Contact Redirect. Enter alternative URL to redirect submitter after email is sent.

Common Options

See Menus: Edit/New Item for help on fields common to all Menu Item types located in the following Tabs:

• Link Type
• Page Display
• Metadata
• Associations
• Module Assignment

Toolbar

At the top of the page you will see the toolbar shown in the Screenshot above. 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. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made. Or
• 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

• In order to make your contact featured do one of the following: From the Contact Manager, either click on the Featured symbol (circle with a star) in the Featured column, or click on the Item select check box and select Feature in the Actions drop-down list in the Toolbar. Several items can be selected to Feature or Unfeature via the Actions list.

Related Information

Related Help Screens	Description
Contacts: Options	Contact Options configuration allows setting of parameters used globally for all contacts.
Contacts: Categories	The Contact Category Manager is where you can edit existing Contact Categories and create new ones. Note that Contact Categories are separate from other Categories, such as for Articles, Banners, News Feeds, and Web Links. From this screen, you can also navigate to the Contacts screen.
Contacts: New or Edit Category	This is where you can add a Contact Category or edit an existing Contact Category. Contact Categories allow you to organize contacts in your web site. Contact Categories are separate from other types of Categories, such as those for Articles, Banners, News Feeds, and so on.
Contacts	The Contact Manager screen allows you to add contact information to your Joomla! site. You can enter information such as name, address, phone and e-mail. You can also link contacts to registered users. Afterwards, you can use the Menu Manager to create front-end links to the the contacts.
Contacts: New or Edit	This is where you can add a Contact or edit an existing Contact. Contacts allow you to list people on your web site. They also allow users to send e-mails to those people.
Menu Item: List Contacts in a Category	Used to show contacts belonging to a specific Category in a list layout. Settings include: Contact Details, Contact Form, presentation(slider, tabs, plain view), and Email subject and message filters.
Menu Item: Featured Contacts	Used to show a list of featured contacts.
Menu Item: Single Contact	Used to show a Single Contact. Settings include: Contact Details, Contact Form, presentation(slider, tabs, plain view), and Email subject and message filters.