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Create a contact form

The Realty Manager provides two types of contact forms, which type is used depends on the link with which the contact form is reached:

  • General type : Visitors can reach the form with a button on their favorites list or in the navigation menu. This form will always send requests to the default e-mail address. The sent e-mails will contain a summary of the visitor’s current favorites list.
  • Specialized type : Visitors can reach the form by using the “Contact us” link an object’s single view page. The page with the form will show the object’s title and number. E-mails are sent directly to the offerer of the object.The offerer is, determined by “contact_data_source”, either the owner or is defined in the realty object’s “contact_email” field. If no valid e-mail address could be fetched from the defined source, the default e-mail address is used.

Configuration for the contact form

  1. Create or choose a FE page for the contact form. It is recommended to activate “ hide in menu ” because the summary of the visitor’s current favorites and the realty object information can only be provided if the corresponding links in the favorites or single view were used to reach this form.If the single view and the contact form for an object should be displayed simultaneously, choose the FE page which contains the single view for the contact form, too.
  2. Create a new content element: Plugins > Realty Manager.
  3. In the content element, set “ What should be displayed ” to “ Contact form ”.
  4. Set a default e-mail address. This address will be used for all requests if the general contact form is displayed. For the specialized contact form with information about a realty object, only messages which cannot be sent to the offerer will be sent to this address.The e-mail address can be set via flexforms or TS setup.
  5. If needed, set a BCC address , where all requests will also be sent to.
  6. Customize your contact form by setting which fields should be displayed and which of those should be required.
  7. Set “ contactPID ” in the TS setup to your FE page which now contains the realty plugin with the contact form: plugin.tx_realty_pi1.contactPID = [PID of the contact form]