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contact us


Contact us enables site users to contact a specified user through the messaging system, it is a good method to allow your tiki users to report errors, bug, dud links or ask questions.

To use this feature, you must enable the contact us feature in admin >> features and, if you would like anonymous users to be able to get in touch you should also enable contactUs Anonymous from admin >> features or admin >> general depending on which version you're using. Please note that the contact us feature uses the messaging system, if the messaging system is disabled, contact us is disabled too.
You'll also need to specify a contact user through admin >> general. The contact user is, naturally, a Tiki username of the user who will recieve the messages.

Many people tend to enter their user name as the contact. To avoid the admin account being pestered.

With all this configured, your users may click the "contact us" link and enter a message to the contact user. Which I tend to use as the only contact feature for the site.

NOTE: If the contact user specified has specified an e-mail address in their personal preferences (in my tiki >> preferences) then a mailto link to this address is added at the bottom of the contact us page. Some peoploe remove this from the template to force site users to use the contact form instead.

one thing I do is; configure the preferences of the contact user to e-mail-forward me any messages of priority 1 or higher, meaning I get e-mails whenever I get a contact message.

RW

Note on some versions of TikiWiki anonomous users, who can't edit pages without creating an account (for admins wishing to avoid wikispam), will not be able to send messages anonomously. In order to be able to send messages anonomousy without being logged on, then the following must also be set. Goto AdminUsers>AdminGroups> and select permissions for the Anonomous Group. This can be found at page tikiwiki/tiki-assignpermission.php?group=Anonymous . From there set tiki_p_messages to true, or check the box. Anonomous users can now send messages anonomously.

UM

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