Contact Us text link - I've dug myself a hole
hi folks and thanks for taking time with my first post,
I can't believe (after 15 years working with software) I managed to dig myself into a completely unnecessary hole that I can't work back from.
It all concerns the standard, out of the box, 'Contact Us' link in the 'Horizontal Nav Bar text links' which I have at the top of my pages. Without thinking it through I'd been trying to move from a place of it opening an email session when clicked to it going to the contact form..... and yes I now know how I should have gone about resolving this from business settings, smtp, etc.
What I did, was over-complicate the issue, looking for a difficult solution and managed to completely delete whatever code would have been required to make it do anything.
What I now have is....
The 'Contact Us' link is not visible on the Nav Bar but space for it exists. If I click into the space where it should be, the layout code window shows:
<actinic:variable name="NavigationIcon" value="Contact Us Text Link" />
.... and nothing else
The design tree for 'Contact us text link' shows nothing at all in the code window. This I fear is where logic and experience were temporarily abandoned in favour of a pre-hello-world approach to dealing with code.
I've since then spent several hours trying to work this out without success so it's not lightly that I post this message.
My guess is that all I need to do is reinstate whatever should have been in this space and I can get back to enjoying life and the new Radiohead album.
Many thanks again for considering this.
Regards,
Michael
I can't believe (after 15 years working with software) I managed to dig myself into a completely unnecessary hole that I can't work back from.
It all concerns the standard, out of the box, 'Contact Us' link in the 'Horizontal Nav Bar text links' which I have at the top of my pages. Without thinking it through I'd been trying to move from a place of it opening an email session when clicked to it going to the contact form..... and yes I now know how I should have gone about resolving this from business settings, smtp, etc.
What I did, was over-complicate the issue, looking for a difficult solution and managed to completely delete whatever code would have been required to make it do anything.
What I now have is....
The 'Contact Us' link is not visible on the Nav Bar but space for it exists. If I click into the space where it should be, the layout code window shows:
<actinic:variable name="NavigationIcon" value="Contact Us Text Link" />
.... and nothing else
The design tree for 'Contact us text link' shows nothing at all in the code window. This I fear is where logic and experience were temporarily abandoned in favour of a pre-hello-world approach to dealing with code.
I've since then spent several hours trying to work this out without success so it's not lightly that I post this message.
My guess is that all I need to do is reinstate whatever should have been in this space and I can get back to enjoying life and the new Radiohead album.
Many thanks again for considering this.
Regards,
Michael
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