Help310:Components Contact Manager Options/nl

Description

Contact Options configuration allows setting of parameters used globally for all contacts.

How to Access

• Select Components → Contacts from the dropdown menu of the Administrator Panel
• Click the Options button in the toolbar.

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Form Fields

Click the Options button to open the Contact Manager Options window which lets you configure this component.

Contact

These settings apply for single Contact unless they are changed for a specific menu item or Contact.

• Choose a Layout. Default layout to use for contacts.
• Contact Category. The options are as follows.
  • Hide: The Contact Category will not show.
  • Show Without Link: The Contact Category will show as text.
  • Show With Link: The Contact Category will show as a link to a Single Category Menu Item.

• Enable Versions. (Yes/No) Whether or not to save version history for contacts. If 'No', version history will not be saved for contacts or for contacts categories.
• Maximum Versions. The maximum number of versions to store for a contact. If a contact is saved and the maximum number of versions has been reached, the oldest version will be deleted automatically. If set to '0', then versions will never be deleted automatically. Also, specific versions may be flagged as "Keep Forever" and will not be deleted automatically.
  Note: Versions may be deleted manually using the 'Delete' button in Version History.
• Show Contact List. If 'Show', the user will be able to change which contact is shown by selecting a contact from a dropdown list of all contacts in the current contact category.
• Display Format. (Sliders/Tabs/Plain) Determines the style used to display sections of the contact form.
• Tags. (Show/Hide) Whether to show or hide any tags for a contact.
• Contact Information. Show or Hide the contact information.
• Name. Show name of a contact.
• Contact's Position. Show or Hide position.
• Email. Show or Hide contact email.
• Add Mailto: Link. Adds a mailto: link to the displayed email address.
• Street Address. Show or Hide street address.
• City or Suburb. Show or Hide city or suburb.
• State or County. Show or Hide state or county.
• Postal/ZIP Code. Show or Hide postal or zip code.
• Country. Show or Hide Country.
• Telephone. Show or Hide telephone number.
• Mobile Phone. Show or Hide mobile number.
• Fax. Show or Hide fax number.
• Webpage. Show or Hide webpage.
• Image. Show or Hide image.
• Image. Choose the image file to use for a contact.
• Miscellaneous Information. Show or Hide miscellaneous information.
• vCard. Whether or not to allow export to vCard format.
• Show User Articles. If a 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. Show or Hide Profile.
• Show User Custom Fields. Show user custom fields which belong to all or only selected field groups.
• Contact Links. Show or Hide Links.
• Link A Label. An additional link for a contact.
• Link B Label. An additional link for a contact.
• Link C Label. An additional link for a contact.
• Link D Label. An additional link for a contact.
• Link E Label. An additional link for a contact.

Icons

These settings apply for single Contact unless they are changed for a specific menu item or Contact.

• Settings. (Icons/Text/None) Choose whether to display icons, text or nothing next to the information.
• Address Icon. Select the Address icon. If none selected, the default icon will be displayed.
• Email Icon. Select the Email icon. If none selected, the default icon will be displayed.
• Telephone Icon. Select the Telephone icon. If none selected, the default icon will be displayed.
• Mobile Icon. Select the Mobile icon. If none selected, the default icon will be displayed.
• Fax Icon. Select the Fax icon. If none selected, the default icon will be displayed.
• Misc Icon. Select the Misc icon. If none selected, the default icon will be displayed.

Category

Category Options control how contacts will show when you drill down to a Category to view its contacts.

• Choose a Layout. (Default) This lets you select the default layout to show when you click on a Category link. If you create an alternative layout for a category layout, you may select that as the default.

• Category Title. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the title of the category.

• Category Description. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the description for the category.

• Category Image. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the category image.

• Subcategory Levels. (All/None/1-5) Categories in Joomla can be created in a hierarchy. This lets you control how many levels of subcategories to show when showing a category view.

• Subcategories Descriptions. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the description of each subcategory.

• Empty Categories. (Show/Hide) Show or hide categories that contain no contacts and no subcategories.

• # Contacts in Category. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the number of contacts in each category.

• Category Tags. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the tags for the category.

Categories

These settings apply for Contact Categories Options unless they are changed for a specific menu item.

• Top Level Category Description. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the description of the top-level category.

• Subcategory Levels. (All/None/1-5) Categories in Joomla can be created in a hierarchy. This lets you control how many levels of subcategories to show when showing a category view.

• Subcategories Descriptions. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the description of each subcategory.

• Empty Categories. (Show/Hide) Show or hide categories that contain no contacts and no subcategories.

• # Contacts in Category. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the number of contacts in each category.

List Layouts

These settings apply for Contact List Options unless they are changed for a specific menu item.

• Filter Field. (Show/Hide) The Filter Field creates a text field where a user can enter a field to be used to filter the contacts shown in the list.

• Display Select. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the Display # control that allows the user to select the number of contacts to show in the list.

• Table Headings. (Show/Hide) Show or hide a heading above the contacts list.
• Image. Show or Hide an Image column in the list of Contacts.
• Position. Show or Hide a Position column in the list of Contacts.
• Email. Show or Hide an Email column in the list of Contacts.
• Phone. Show or Hide a Phone column in the list of Contacts.
• Mobile. Show or Hide show a Mobile column in the list of Contacts.
• Fax. Show or Hide a Fax column in the list of Contacts.
• City or Suburb. Show or Hide a City or Suburb column in the list of Contacts.
• State or County. Show or Hide a State or County column in the list of Contacts.
• Country. Show or Hide a Country column in the list of Contacts.

• Pagination. Show or hide 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.
  • Show: Pagination links shown if needed.
  • Auto: 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. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the current page number and total pages (e.g., "Page 1 of 2") at the bottom of each page.

• Sort By. Choose the field name to sort.

Form

These settings apply for single Contact unless they are changed for a specific menu item or Contact.

• Allow Captcha on Contact. (Use Global (- None Selected -)/- None Selected -). Select the captcha plugin that will be used in the contact form. Captcha is the name of a technique to prevent spam user registrations by requiring a user to type in characters from a distorted image or to mark 'I'am not a robot'. You may need to enter further information for your captcha plugin in the Plugin Manager.
• Contact Form. (Show/Hide) Show or Hide contact form.
• Send Copy to Submitter. (Show/Hide) Show or Hide checkbox to allow copy of email to be sent to submitter.
• Banned Email. Email addresses not allowed to submit information with the contact form.
• Banned Subject. Subjects not allowed in contact form.
• Banned Text. Text not allowed in contact form body.
• Session Check. (Yes/No) Check for the existence of session cookie. This means that users without cookies enabled will not be able to send emails.
• Custom Reply. (Yes/No) Turns off the automated reply, allowing for Plugins to handle integration with other systems.
• Contact Redirect. Enter an alternative URL, where the user will be redirected after mail is send.

Integration

These settings determine how the Contact Component will integrate with other extensions.

News Feeds

• Show Feed Link. (Show/Hide) Show or hide the feed links URLs. A feed link will show up as a feed icon in the address bar of most browsers.

Routing

• URL Routing. This is configured per component.
  • Legacy: Ensures full comptability for existing sites.
  • Modern: Enables advanced features but may change your URLs.

Custom Fields

• Enable Custom Fields. (Yes/No) Enable the creation of custom fields.

Permissions

Manage the permission settings for user groups.

To change the permissions for contacts, do the following.

1. Select the Group by clicking its title located on the left.

2. Find the desired Action. Possible Actions are:

• Configure ACL & Options. Users can edit the options and permissions of contacts.

• Configure Options Only. Users can edit the options except the permissions of contacts.

• Access Administration Interface. Users can access user administration interface of contacts.

• Create. Users can create content of contacts.

• Delete. Users can delete content of contacts.

• Edit. Users can edit content of this extension.

• Edit State. Users can change the published state and related information for content of contacts.

• Edit Own. Users can edit own created content of contacts.

• Edit Custom Field Value. Allows users in the group to edit any value of custom fields submitted in contacts.

3. Select the desired Permission for the action you wish to change. Possible settings are:

• Inherited: Inherited for users in this Group from the Global Configuration permissions of this site.

• Allowed: Allowed for users in this Group. Note that, if this action is Denied at one of the higher levels, the Allowed permission here will not take effect. A Denied setting cannot be overridden.

• Denied: Denied for users in this Group.

4. Click Save in Toolbar at top. When the screen refreshes, the Calculated Setting column will show the effective permission for this Group and Action.

Toolbar

At the top left you will see the toolbar.

The functions are:

• Save. Saves the Contact options and stays in the current screen.

• Save & Close. Saves the Contact options and closes the current screen.

• Cancel. 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

• If you are a beginning user, you can just keep the default values here until you learn more about using global options.
• If you are an advanced user, you can save time by creating good default values here. When you set up menu items and create contacts, you will be able to accept the default values for most options.
• All values set here can be overridden at the menu item, category, or contact level.

Related Information

• To create and edit contacts.

• For more information about Joomla's Access Control List system: ACL Tutorial