Joomla! Documentation™

Description

Contacts allow you to list people and their personal information on your web site, not necessarily registered users. You may also allow anyone, or just registered users, to send e-mails to those people. The Edit Form is where you add a new Contact or edit an existing Contact.

Be aware: If a contact has a menu item then the Contact Menu Settings override some settings available here. Be careful not to disclose personal information by mistake!

Comment y accéder ?

• Select Components → Contacts → Contacts in the Administrator menu. Then...
• To Add a new Contact:
  • Select the New button in the Toolbar.
• To Edit an existing Contact:
  • Select a contact title in the Title column.

Capture d'écran

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Form Fields

In this section, you can enter information about the Contact, such as name, address, e-mail, and so on. The options allow you to control settings such as what information gets displayed for each Contact.

• Name. The full name of the Contact.

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Edit Contact

Here you enter the basic information about the contact.

• Linked User. Select the User, if any, that this Contact is linked to from the drop-down list box. This allows you to link this Contact's information to a registered Joomla! User. If this Contact is not linked to a User, select "-No User-".
• Image. Image to display for this Contact. Select an image file from the drop-down list box. This lists images in the 'images/stories' folder. Images can be uploaded using the Media Manager.
• Position: The Contact's current position.
• E-mail. The Contact's e-mail address. Note that e-mail addresses in Joomla! can be protected from "spambots" by enabling "Content-Email Cloaking" in the Plug-in Manager. This is enabled by default.
• Address. The Contact's street address.
• City or Suburb. The Contact's town or suburb.
• State or Province. The Contact's state or county.
• Postal / ZIP Code. The Contact's postal code.
• Country. The Contact's country.
• Telephone. The Contact's phone number.
• Mobile. The Contact's mobile phone number.
• Fax. The Contact's fax number.
• Website. The Contact's web site address.
• Sort Fields. To enable sort fields for Category lists go to the Contacts → Options screen and set List Layouts → Sort By to Sort Name. Then you need to use real words for sorting. For example, set First Sort Field to Doe, second field to John for the first contact; then First Sort Field to Doe, second field to Jane for the second contact. The third field is not used in this case. The sort fields are character fields so if you want to sort by age you need to enter 0x for ages under 10, so 08 for example.
  • First Sort Field. The name to use as the first sort field.
  • Second Sort Field. The name to use as the second sort field.
  • Third Sort Field. The name to use as the third sort field.

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Miscellaneous Information

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Other information about this Contact can be entered using the editor.

Display

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• Show Category. Show or hide the Contact's category.
• Show Contact List. Show or hide the Contact list.
• Display format. Determines the style used to display sections of the contact form.

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• Contact Information. Hide or Show the Contact information.
• Miscellaneous Information. Hide or Show the Miscellaneous information.
• vCard. Hide or Show the vCard link for this Contact.
• Show User Articles. If this contact is mapped to a user, and if this is set to Show, then a list of articles created by this user will show.
• # Articles to List. Number of articles to list.
• User Profile. If this contact is mapped to a user, and if this is set to Show, then the profile of this user will show.
• Show User Custom Field Groups. Show user custom fields which belong to all or only selected field groups.
• Contact Links. Show or hide the contact links.
• Link A Label. Label for an additional link for this contact.
• Link A URL. The additional link URL for this contact.
• Link B Label. Label for an additional link for this contact.
• Link B URL. The additional link URL for this contact.
• Link C Label. Label for an additional link for this contact.
• Link C URL. The additional link URL for this contact.
• Link D Label. Label for an additional link for this contact.
• Link D URL. The additional link URL for this contact.
• Link E Label. Label for an additional link for this contact.
• Link E URL. The additional link URL for this contact.
• Layout. Use a different layout from the supplied component view or overrides in the templates.

Form

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• Contact Form. Hide or Show the E-mail form. If Show is selected, a form is displayed that allows the user to send an e-mail to the Contact from the web site.
• Send Copy to Submitter. Hide or Show the checkbox: 'E-mail a copy of this message to your own address.'
• Session Check. Check for the existence of session cookie. This means that users without cookies enabled will not be able to send emails.
• Custom Reply. Turns off the automated reply, allowing for Plugins to handle integration with other systems.
• Contact Redirect. Enter an alternative url, where user will be redirected to after the mail is sent.

Publishing

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Associations

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Toolbar

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Quick Tips

At least one Contact Category must be added before adding the first Contact.

Related Information

Related Help Screens	Description
[[Help40:Contacts:_Categories/en|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 theContact Manager: Contacts screen.
[[Help40:Contacts:_Edit_Category/en|Contacts: 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.
[[Help40:Contacts/en|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.