Time for action – creating a Contact Form menu link
Now that a contact exists, you can add a link to a contact form to the main menu:
Navigate to Menus | Top. We'll add the new link to the horizontal top menu.
Click on New.
In the Menu Item Type list, go to Contacts | Single Contact.
Click on the Select button next to the Select a Contact textbox to select the appropriate contact, CORBA Staff.
Enter Menu Title for the menu item (for example, Contact Us). Make sure Menu Location is set to the Top menu.
Click on the Contact Display Options tab, choose Display format: Plain. Otherwise, the contact form will be displayed in separate (sliding or tabbed) panels—which is not what we want.
Click on Save & Close. The site now has a Contact Us menu link that displays a contact form:
What just happened?
You used the Contacts component to create a contact and added a menu link to a contact form. Again, you have experienced how powerful menu links are in Joomla. Just by selecting Menu Item Type: Single...
