Overview

Any Tridion site can have a specific contact form. Behind this, you have to manage a selection of contacts. 

This step by step help you to create, update or delete a contact of a web site.

This operation needs to use the "Tridion Content Manager" instead of the better known "Site Edit".

Table of contents

 

Step-by-step

 

Step 1: Create or update contact

Reach the web contact folder in Tridion Back Office in SW C1 Master-XX (depending on where you need to update the content) and click on it to open it.

a. Create a contact

This option is valid only when you need to create an additional contact not updating one.

  1. On Create tab, click on New Component. A form opens.

 

2. Fill in the name and the email and associate zones or countries to your contact (depending which scope he will cover).

If no "Country" are ticked, only the "Zones" at taken in account.

3. Select the contact type Communications & the concerned entity
4. Click on Save & Close to save your new contact.

b. Update a contact

2. Select the contact to modify & double click on it to open the form.

3. In the form, update the name & email if the contact has changed.
You can also modify zone or select country manually if relevant. 

4. Click on Save & Close to save your updated contact.

Step 2: Publish new / updated contact

  1. Reach the web contact folder in Tridion Back Office in SW W1 xx-xx (depending on where you need to publish the content) and select the new / updated contact

2. Click on Publish icon. A pop-in opens. Stick staging & Live & click on publish.

Your new / updated contact will now receive emails when a request will be sent on the contact form.

If you want, you can test the contact form in live website.

Step 4: Delete a contact
  1. Reach the web contact folder in Tridion Back Office in SW W1 xx-xx (depending on where you need to publish the content) and select the contact to delete

2. Click on Unpublish icon. A pop-in opens. Stick staging & Live & click on unpublish.

Your new / updated contact will no longer receive emails when a request will be sent on the contact form.

3. Reach the web contact folder in Tridion Back Office in SW C1 Master-XX (depending on where you need to update the content) and select the contact to delete.

Click on the cross to delete it.

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