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Description¶

The Single Contact meu item type is used to show a menu link for a Single Contact with optional settings such as Contact Details, Contact Form and Email subject and message filters.

Common Elements¶

Some aspects of this page are covered in separate Help articles:

• Toolbars.
• The Details Tab.
• The Link Type Tab.
• The Page Display Tab.
• The Metadata Tab.
• The Associations Tab.
• The Module Assignment Tab.

How To Access¶

To create a new Single Contact Menu Item:

• Select Menus → [name of the menu] from 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 Single Contact item.

To edit an existing Single Contact 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.

Contact Display Options¶

Contact Display Options control the appearance of the list layout.

• Contact Category Show or hide the Contact 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.
• Contact Select List Show or hide to allow the user to use a drop down list of all contacts in one contact category.
• Name Show or hide the contact's Name.
• Tags Show or hide any contact's tags.
• Contact Information If set to Show the following fields are available:
  • Contact's Position Show or hide the contact's Contact's Position.
  • Email Show or hide the contact's Email.
  • Street Address Show or hide the contact's Street Address.
  • City or Suburb Show or hide the contact's City or Suburb.
  • State or County Show or hide the contact's State or County.
  • Postal Code Show or hide the contact's Postal Code.
  • Country Show or hide the contact's Country.
  • Telephone Show or hide the contact's Telephone.
  • Mobile phone Show or hide the contact's Mobile phone.
  • Fax Show or hide the contact's Fax.
  • Webpage Show or hide the contact's Webpage.
  • Image Show or hide the contact's Image.
• vCard Display the contact's vCard.
• Miscellaneous Information Display the contact's Miscellaneous Information.
• User Articles Display the contact's Articles.
• # Articles to List The number the contact's articles to list.
• Contact Links Show or hide the contact's additional links. These could be links to Social Media accounts, such as Twitter, Facebook, Skype...
• Link <letter> Label. <A to E> Labels (5) to override shown link's label.

Mail Options¶

• Contact Form Show or hide the contact's contact form.
• Send Copy to Submitter Show or hide the a check box to allow a Submitter to send a copy of email to themselves.
• Session Check Check for the existence of a session cookie. Users without cookies enabled will not be able to send emails.
• Custom Reply Turn on or off the custom message reply to contact form's submitter.
• Contact Redirect Enter alternative URL to redirect the submitter to after a successful contact form email is sent.