Automatic contact forms

An automatic contact form can be set up as follows:

• In the site or subsite where you want to display contact forms instead of email addresses, set the sitemap attribute mercury.contact.form to the value “true”.
• Set up a detail page for the content types Person, Organization, and, if necessary, Contact Information.
• Drag a new row onto the detail page and a /en/elements/content/organization into the newly created row.
• Open the element settings for the form and select the “Dynamic contact form” mode.
• Configure the form according to your preferences.

Do not use a detail page that also displays other content elements; instead, use a dedicated detail page for contacts. However, the three contact types - person, organization, and contact information - can share a detail page.

The form can be freely configured. In addition to the usual configuration options for forms, two additional macros are available:

• %(contact.name): shows the name of the contact in the email subject line or in the email text
• %(contact.form): shows the public URL for the contact form in the email text  

Finally, it is recommended to configure a modern captcha for contact forms to avoid spam.

Clicking on the “Click to send email” link does not open the user's local email program, as is usually the case with persons, organizations and contact information, but instead opens a page with a contact form.