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Menu Item: List Contacts in a Category
Description¶
The List Contacts in a Category menu item type is used to show contacts in a given Category in a list layout. Settings include: Contact Details, Contact Form, presentation(slider, tabs, plain view), and Email subject and message filters.
How To Access¶
To create a new List Contacts in a Category menu item:
- Select Menus → [name of the menu] from the Administrator
menu (for example, Menus → Main Menu).
- Select the New Toolbar button. Then...
- Select the Menu Item Type Select button
- In the modal dialog select the Contacts item to open a list and then select the List Contacts in a Category item.
To edit an existing List Contacts in a Category 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.
Details Tab¶
Left Panel¶
- Menu Item Type. The Menu Item Type selected when this menu item was created. This can be one of the core menu item types or a menu item type provided by an installed extension.
- Select a Category. Select a contact category to display.
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Target Window. This determines how the new page will be opened.
Options are:
- Parent Open new menu item in parent window. This is the default.
- New Window With Navigation Open menu item in a new window with full browser navigation (for example, "back" button).
- New Without Navigation Open menu item in a new window without browser navigation.
- Template Style. Controls the template style for this menu item. A list box will show the available template styles for your site. Select "Use Default" to use the default style for the site. Select a specific template style to always show this menu item with that style.
Right Panel¶
- Menu. Shows which menu the link will appear in.
- Parent Item. The parent menu item for this menu item. Used to determine whether a Menu Item is a top-level item or a submenu item. Select 'Menu Item Root' (the default value) if this is a top-level Menu Item. Otherwise, select the Menu Item that is this item's parent.
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Ordering. You can change the order of an item within a list as
follows:
- If the list Filter Options include a Position filter select the desired Position. This will limit the list to items that are assigned to that Position.
- Select the Ordering icon
in the Table heading to make it the active ordering item. The ordering icons in each row will change from light grey to dark grey and the pointer will change to a drag arrow on hover.
- Select one of the Ordering icons
and drag it up or down to change the position of that row in the list. The items will display in the new order within the Position.
- Status. The published status of the item.
- Start Publishing. Date and time to start publishing. Use this field if you want to enter content ahead of time and then have it published automatically at a future time.
- Finish Publishing. Date and time to finish publishing. Use this field if you want to have content automatically changed to Unpublished state at a future time (for example, when it is no longer applicable).
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Default Page. If Yes, this menu item is the default or home page
for the site. There must be exactly one menu item set as the default
page. You can change the default page in two ways:
- Click on the Home column of the desired menu item in the Menus: Items screen.
- Open the menu item for the new default page and change the Default Page setting to Yes.
- Access. The viewing Access Level for this item.
- Language. Item language.
- Note. This is normally for the site administrator's use (for example, to document information about this item) and does not show in the Frontend of the site.
Category Tab¶
The Category Options control the way that category information is shown in the layout. The Category List Layout has the following Category Options, as shown below.
- Category Title. (Use Global/Hide/Show) If Show, the Category Title will show as a subheading on the page. The subheading is usually displayed inside the "H2" tag.
- Category Description. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Show or hide the description of the selected Category.
- Category Image. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the category image.
- Subcategory Levels. (Use Global/All/1-5) The number of levels of subcategories to show in the layout. Select All to show all levels in the subcategory hierarchy.
- Empty Categories. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the categories that contain no content items or subcategories.
- Subcategories Descriptions. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the category description of subcategories.
- # Contacts in Category. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the number of Contact in a Contact Category.
List Layouts Tab¶
List Layout Options control the appearance of the list layout.
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Filter Field. (Use Global/Hide/Show) The Filter Field creates a text field for the front-end user to enter some part of a contact name to search for.
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Display Select. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to hide or show the Display # control that allows the user to select the number of items to show in the list. If there are more items than this number, you can use the page navigation buttons (Start, Prev, Next, End, and page numbers) to navigate between pages. Note that if you have a large number of items, it may be helpful to use the Filter options, located above the column headings, to limit which items display.
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Table Headings. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Table Headings show a heading above a list. If set to Show, this heading will show above the list. If set to Hide, the list will show with no headings.
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Image. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Show or hide an Image column in the list of Contacts.
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Position. (Use Global/Hide/Show) The position this contact holds in the organisation. For example CEO, Secretary, Janitor.
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Email. Set to control the Email's display in list. The following options are available.
- Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
- Show: Show in list.
- Hide: Do not show in list.
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Phone. Set to control the Phone's display in list. The following options are available.
- Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
- Show: Show in list.
- Hide: Do not show in list.
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Mobile. Set to control the Mobile's display in list. The following options are available.
- Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
- Show: Show in list.
- Hide: Do not show in list.
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Fax. Set to control the Fax's display in list. The following options are available.
- Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
- Show: Show in list.
- Hide: Do not show in list.
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City or Suburb. Set to control the City or Suburb's display in list. The following options are available.
- Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
- Show: Show in list.
- Hide: Do not show in list.
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State or County. Set to control the State or County's display in list. The following options are available.
- Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
- Show: Show in list.
- Hide: Do not show in list.
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Country. Set to control the Country's display in list. The following options are available.
- Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
- Show: Show in list.
- Hide: Do not show in list.
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Pagination. Hide or Show 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. The following options are available.
- Use Global: Use the default value from the component options screen.
- Auto: Pagination links shown if needed.
- Show: Pagination links shown if needed.
- Hide: Pagination links not shown. Note: In this case, Users will not be able to navigate to additional pages.
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Pagination Results. Hide or Show the current page number and total pages (e.g., "Page 1 of 2") at the bottom of each page. Use Global will use the default value from the component options.
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Sort by. Choose the field name to sort.
Contact Display Tab¶
Contact Display fields control the appearance of the list layout.
- Choose a Layout. Select from the list of templates.
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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:**¶
- 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:
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Use Global: Use the default value from the contacts options screen.
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Show: Show this field.
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Hide: Do not display this field.
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Link <letter> Label. <A to E> Labels (5) to override shown link's label.
Mail Options Tab¶
Contact Mail Options control the appearance of a Contact's → Contact Form if it is enabled.
- Contact Form. Display the contact's contact form.
- Send Copy to Submitter. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Display the a check box to allow a Submitter to send a copy of email to themselves.
- Session Check. (Use Global/No/Yes) Check for the existence of session cookie. Users without cookies enabled will not be able to send emails.
- Custom Reply. (Use Global/No/Yes) Turn on or off the custom message reply to contact form's submitter.
- Contact Redirect. Enter alternative URL to redirect submitter after a successful contact form email was sent.
Integration Tab¶
The List Contacts in a Category Menu Item has the following Integration Options.
These determine whether a news feed will be available for the page and what information it will show.
- Show Feed Link. (Use Global/Hide/Show) Whether to Hide or Show a link to a news feed (RSS Feed). If set to Show, a Feed Link will show up as a feed icon in the address bar of most modern browsers.
Common Options¶
See Menus: New Item for help on fields common to all Menu Item types, including:
- Right Panel
- Link Type
- Page Display
- Metadata
- Associations
- Module Assignment
Toolbar¶
At the top of the page you will see the toolbar shown in the Screenshot above. The functions are:
- Save. Saves the menu item and stays in the current screen.
- Save & Close. Saves the menu item and closes the current screen.
- Save & New. Saves the menu item and keeps the editing screen open and ready to create another menu item.
- Save & Close. Saves the menu item 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¶
- The Category List layout is a convenient way to list a compact directory of contacts in a category that can include filtering and searching.