Help310:Components Contacts Categories Edit

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Overview

This screen is accessed from the back-end Joomla! administrator panel. It is used to create or edit Contact Categories in your Joomla! website.

How to Access

Navigate to the Contact Category Manager. To add a new Contact Category, press the "New" icon in the toolbar. To edit an existing Contact Category, click on the Category's Name or click the Category's checkbox and then click on the "Edit" icon in the toolbar.

Description

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.

Screenshot

Details and Options

In this section, you can enter information about the Contact Category, such as name, alias, description, and so on.

Details

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• Permissions. Press the Set Permissions button to go to the Category Permissions section.

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Basic Options

• Alternative Layout. Specify a different layout than the one supplied by the component view or template overrides.

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Category Permissions

This section is where you can view and edit permissions for items that are part of this Contact Category.

The tree on the left represents the user groups that have been defined for your Joomla! site, while the right part displays permissions for the currently selected group, and lets you edit those permissions:

Toolbar

At the top right you will see the toolbar:

The functions are:

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• Save. Saves the contact category and stays in the current screen.</translate>

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• Save & Close. Saves the contact category and closes the current screen.</translate>

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• Save & New. Saves the contact category and keeps the editing screen open and ready to create another contact category.</translate>

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• Cancel. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.</translate>

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• Help. Opens this help screen.</translate>

Related Information

• To find and edit existing Contacts: Contact Manager