Beginner's Guide

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a contact category
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a contact
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a link in a menu
Maybe you still have a category from the example data (Sample-data contact). If not, go ahead and
create one. In the next step you will create a new contact. To do so, open Components → Contacts in your
administration area and click on the icon New. Then fill in the appearing form (Figure 2). I have labeled
some areas in the screenshot for better orientation.
Figure 2: Create contact
1. The first and last name of the contact person, or the name of the department or company if it is
not a person. The contact can be connected with an existing user account. He has to be assigned to a
category, should be public (State = Published) and presumably not appear on the frontpage (Featured =
No).
2. The text area can be used for additonal information, e.g. opening hours or jurisdiction.
3. The Publishing Options relate to the user who can later make changes to that content, who created
the content, and the timing for publishing. The latter is used rather seldomly for 'normal' websites.
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