A Site-wide contact form
- allows a visitor or a user (i.e. someone logged on) to contact people using a form on the site.
- hides the recipients email address(es). The recipients do not have to be registered as users on the site.
- does not store the messages on the website.
- is primarily for folk outside of the synod staff to contact specific staff members.
Creating a contact form
Site-wide contact forms need to be set up manually for each set of recipients.
To see a list of existing Contact Forms, on the admin menu choose Structure >> Contact forms
To create a new contact form click the [ + Add contact form ] button.
This allows you to set the following options.
| Label | This is the Title for the form. Example: 'website feedback' or 'product information'. ( having entered a Label you can optionally edit the unique Machine name, which can only contain lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores. DON’T! ) |
| Recipients | Example: 'webmaster@example.com' or 'sales@example.com, support@example.com' . To specify multiple recipients, separate each email address with a comma. |
| Message | The message to display to the user after submission of this form. Leave blank for no message. |
| Redirect path | Path to redirect the user to after submission of this form. For example, type "/about" to redirect to that page. Use a relative path with a slash in front. i.e. omit the "https://urc5.org.uk" part. |
| Auto-reply | Optionally send auto-reply email. Leave empty if you do not want to send the user an auto-reply message. |
| Weight | When listing forms, those with lighter (smaller) weights get listed before forms with heavier (larger) weights. Forms with equal weights are sorted alphabetically. |
| Make this the default form | Do not check this – the default is the General (Synod Office) form which sends a message to admin@urc5.org.uk and modpa@urc5.org.uk |
Some forms have been given an additional 'Clarify Recipients' "Markup" field, placed above the name field. It is used to clarify who exactly will receive the message ( for example, as on the Moderator and Moderator's P.A. form).
A "Markup" field has a default value set for the form which is displayed to give further 'help' information when the form is used. The value is set in Manage fields : Clarify recipients [Edit], under Markup towards the bottom of the page. If you need to add this to another form, on that form choose the Manage Fields Tab, and then [ + Add Field ] and in the Re-use an existing field drop down select 'Markup: field_clarify_recipients'.