XF 2.1 I need my contact form link to point to a forum instead of a mail form.

[derpyhooves]

It just happens to be the case that our E-mail gets so much spam, bad offers, and other junk that we rarely have a reason to check it. It's certainly no excuse, but there happen to be FAR better reasons for people to just make a topic on the forums instead.

We have one forum that only guests can see and post in. It's for people that are having trouble logging in. So that would work for that aspect.

We also want to encourage users to make a thread in our "Talk to the staff" forum, where they can only see their own topics and no one else's.

So is there a way to change the contents of that Contact form block so it's a URL instead of an E-mail form, please?

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EDIT: Yep, Sim was spot-on. Thank you very much! I suppose this can be closed if needed now.

 

[Sim]

AdminCP > Options > Basic options (or Basic board information on XF 2.1) > Contact URL

You can set a Custom URL

 

[Prajwal Desai]

AdminCP > Options > Basic options (or Basic board information on XF 2.1) > Contact URL

You can set a Custom URL

Hi, I see that when I visit the contact us on somersoft site, it brings up a contact form. How did you configure that?

 

[Sim]

Hi, I see that when I visit the contact us on somersoft site, it brings up a contact form. How did you configure that?

That's the default setting.

 

[philmckrackon]

On a similar note that will direct only logged in users to your forum when the contact link is selected, I created a TMS mod.

Template: PAGE_CONTAINER
Find: <li><a href="{$xf.contactUrl}" data-xf-click="{{ ($xf.options.contactUrl.overlay OR $xf.options.contactUrl.type == 'default') ? 'overlay' : '' }}">{{ phrase('contact_us') }}</a></li>
Replace:

 <xf:if is="$xf.visitor.user_id">
      <li><a href="https://your_site.com/*****/*****/support-questions-issues.18/">{{ phrase('contact_us') }}</a></li>
      <xf:else />
      <li><a href="{$xf.contactUrl}" data-xf-click="{{ ($xf.options.contactUrl.overlay OR $xf.options.contactUrl.type == 'default') ? 'overlay' : '' }}">{{ phrase('contact_us') }}</a></li>
 </xf:if>