Joomla! Documentation™

Contact Display Tab

Contact Display fields control the appearance of the list layout.

• Choose a Layout. Select from the list of templates.

• Contact Category. Set to control the Contacts Category display view.

The following options are available.

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Hide: Do not show the Category name of the contacts.
• Show Without Link: Show Category name of contacts as heading styled text only.
• Show With Link Show Category name of contacts as heading styled text linked to Category.

• Show Contacts List. Allow the user to use a drop down list of all contacts in one contact category. Set one of the following options:

• Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
• Show: Show to allow users to select a contact in a drop down list.
• Hide: Do not display the Contact list.

• Tags. Whether to hide or show any tags for this item.

Common Contact Display Fields are:

• Name. Display the contact's Name.

• Contact's Position. Display the contact's Contact's Position.

• Email. Display the contact's Email.

• Street Address. Display the contact's Street Address.

• City or Suburb. Display the contact's City or Suburb.

• State or County. Display the contact's State or County.

• Postal Code. Display the contact's Postal Code.

• Country. Display the contact's Country.

• Telephone. Display the contact's Telephone.

• Mobile phone. Display the contact's Mobile phone.

• Fax. Display the contact's Fax.

• Webpage. Display the contact's Webpage.

• Misc. Information. Display the contact's Misc. Information.

• Image. Display the contact's Image.

• vCard. Display the contact's vCard.

• Show User Articles. Display the contact's Articles.

• # Articles to List. Display the contact's Number of Articles.

• Show Links. Display the contact's additional links. These could be links to Social Media accounts, such as Twitter, Facebook, Skype...

All of the Common Contact Display Fields have the following options available:

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

• Link <letter> Label. <A to E> Labels (5) to override shown link's label.