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Committee email contact page
Just when you thought you’d learned all you need to know about SiteWorks up
pops something else. This wasn’t covered in Part 1 because it is not part of the
u3a SiteWorks product. It’s something we need to cover because of the way
SiteWorks works and it needs to be before migration as that is when you are
going to use it.

One thing we all need to do is to create a contact page for our committee
members. In Site Builder a committee contact form such as the one below was
built in but in u3a SiteWorks it is not.

The contact form mechanism in SiteWorks uses an approach devised to
minimise the chances of spammers automatically sending messages using the
contact form. Whenever a contact form is displayed, it is generated using a
unique time-limited code which ensures that the form can only be used to send
a single message. The form is only generated in response to a click on a link that
has been generated using the u3a_contact shortcode (or automatically by one
of the u3a SiteWorks Blocks).

It is technically not possible to have the contact form links on the same page as
the contact form itself. If we want to provide a list of contacts similar to what we
had on Site Builder then we need to use the appropriate u3a_contact
shortcodes.

The design and layout of the contact form is entirely up to you but what follows
should help you to decide what you would like to do. You might want to get onto
Local now and create a Committee Contacts page to follow this section.

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