Removing # field from Contacts Component

gwurst · Post by **gwurst** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:20 pm

I have 1.5 stable installed with the JA_Purity template. I'm not sure if this is cause by Joomla or the template, but when I add a Contacts >> Category page in the menu it shows a number before the people's names and positions. If you turn on the field names the field name is '#'. There is no setting in the preferences to remove this field. What do I need to do to keep this field from displaying?

Thanks,

Greg

radiant_tech · Post by **radiant_tech** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:02 pm

That column is part of the core layout. You can create a template override to remove the column as follows:

Within the directory for the template you are using there is a subdirectory named html.
Create a subdirectory within this named com_contact, and another within com_contact named category, so you will have:
templates/yourtemplate/html/com_contact/category/

Go to components/com_contact/views/category/tmpl and copy the files default.php and default_items.php to the subdirectory that you just created. Default.php is the overall page layout and includes the table heading. Default_items.php fills the table with the list of contacts.

Edit these files to remove the table cell that holds the id. Remember to reduce the colspan to 5 in thead and tfoot.

gwurst · Post by **gwurst** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:23 pm

Excellent! That was exactly what I needed. Not only that, I now know how to override default parameters without modifying the core structure (I'd have probably found it eventually, but this saved me a bunch of time looking).

Thanks for your help,

Greg

MrTeroo · Post by **MrTeroo** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:03 am

Big help to me too!

Many thanks

Mr T

jvalal · Post by **jvalal** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:08 am

I have something similar as all I want to do is change the text on my contacts page, below, to read something different than "Contact details for this website" where would I do that?

http://rainiervistabgc.org/contact.html

Dibblier · Post by **Dibblier** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:07 pm

Go to Components -> Contact -> Categories click on your category, scroll down and change the description-

jvalal · Post by **jvalal** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:04 am

thanks

dk-kronborg · Post by **dk-kronborg** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:24 pm

Thanks for the tip

Is there a way to control the number of contacts being shown on 1 page.

I have a list of 23 contacts and insted of having 2 pages with 20 & 3 contacts i will have them all in 1 page.

Regards
Henrik

northside_umc · Post by **northside_umc** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:54 pm

i'm having the same issue. i want to remove those numbers. i'm using the JS_Jamba template, and there is no "html" subdirectory within the "templates" directory. should i just create the html directory and follow the rest of the steps from there?

thanks,
daniel

DRM4GOD · Post by **DRM4GOD** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:10 am

This was the easiest way for me to do this using the standard Joomla template:
1. Go to the template directory
2. Edit the HTML/com_contact/category/default_items.php file (back up this file first)
3. Near the top of the file, there is this line of code:

Code: Select all

<?php echo $item->count +1; ?>

4. Remove this line and save, refresh page, numbers should disappear.

trgraglia · Post by **trgraglia** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:20 am

Also, dont forget to place the blank html files in the folders you create.

index.html

with guts like:

<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></body></html>

delazon · Post by **delazon** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:39 am

radiant_tech wrote:That column is part of the core layout. You can create a template override to remove the column as follows:

Within the directory for the template you are using there is a subdirectory named html.
Create a subdirectory within this named com_contact, and another within com_contact named category, so you will have:
templates/yourtemplate/html/com_contact/category/

Go to components/com_contact/views/category/tmpl and copy the files default.php and default_items.php to the subdirectory that you just created. Default.php is the overall page layout and includes the table heading. Default_items.php fills the table with the list of contacts.

Edit these files to remove the table cell that holds the id. Remember to reduce the colspan to 5 in thead and tfoot.

I cant find the right line to delete in the files you discribe. I have located the right files and created the directory and all, but i cant find the right code to delete. I hope it´s not to late to get help about this.

Thanx!

strydem · Post by **strydem** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:53 pm

Hello,

How can i remove the whole list, so that whenever some acces my contact page, it goes straight to the main info, and not display any of my contacts in a list.

simplyg123 · Post by **simplyg123** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:35 am

strydem wrote:Hello,

How can i remove the whole list, so that whenever some acces my contact page, it goes straight to the main info, and not display any of my contacts in a list.

You need to change the menu item to Standard Category Layout instead of Contact Category Layout

Jim007 · Post by **Jim007** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:04 pm

Thank you for the information, it worked very well

I removed this and it seemed to do it well

<?php echo JText::_('Num'); ?>

TheReal7 · Post by **TheReal7** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:03 pm

I tried to edit the php files but I have no clue what I am doing. I am not a coder.

What I want to do is remove everything from the contact page but the fill in fields and I also want to center everything on the page.

What I want removed is:
Name
Position

Contact
Address:
Street
Suburb
State
Zip Code
Country

Telephone: Telephone
Fax: Fax

Information: Miscellanous info

Any advice how to remove all this? Keep in mind, I am not a coder and looking at the php files gives me a head ache HAHAH

thanks.

ackerthehacker · Post by **ackerthehacker** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:50 am

How do you remove the # for Joomla 1.6 .. it looks different from what I can see.

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