Setting up the contact form
The contact form allows your site users to send messages to you without exposing your contact information to spam bots.
The first thing you need to do is set the systems email settings. You must be a super administrator to do this (but it only needs to be done once).
Go to the site tab, then in the site settings section you need to enter the settings for your mail account. These are exactly the same settings you would use to set up an email account with Outlook.
Once your system is set up to send mail you can create your form.
To add a contact form to your site you first need to create the page.
Once you have created the page for your contact form go to the page's advanced options. Click modules from the view menu. Then select the Contact module -> Contact Form module page. This form will load:
The contact form has several options:
- Recipient: this is the name of the recipient
- Recipients email: this is the email address that the message will be sent to
- Autoresponse: this is optional, but if set will send a autoresponse to the sender
- Subject: the subject of the autoresponse message
- Message: the body of the autoresponse message
- Success message: this is displayed on the form after a message was successfully sent
- Error message: this is displayed on the form if there was an error sending the message
Once this is set you click Save Changes and the form is added to your page. Click here to see the form in action.
