Cannot see link to contact page in Views

By cliffskier on 1 Aug 2016 at 14:44 UTC

I am trying to create a member directory using Views. It is visible to members and shows contact information for other members. Instead of showing an e-mail address, I would like to have a link to the user's contact page. I have added the field User:Link to contact page. All of the other fields are listed, but I see no link to a contact page, even if I know the member's contact form is enabled. Am I missing something?

Comments

Is this the user personal

onejam commented 1 August 2016 at 15:27

Is this the user personal contact form? If so, check the permission settings (admin path: /admin/people/permissions) and see who has access to contact form and update the permission to what you want.

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I think the permissions are right

cliffskier commented 1 August 2016 at 15:43

I am the administrator, and I have permission to "Use users' personal contact forms." Members also have that permission. As administrator I can click on any users and access their contact forms. But I still don't see the link to the contact form in my view.

There is another way wihch i

onejam commented 1 August 2016 at 15:54

There is another way wihch i use:

For this to work, the Token module needs to be enabled.

- Create a new view based on User.
- Add a field User:Uid
- In field settings:
- Untick 'Link this field to its user'
- Tick 'Rewrite the output of this field'
- Add some text e.g. 'contact user'
- Tick 'Output this field as a link'
- Set 'Link Path' to 'user/[uid]/contact'

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That worked

cliffskier commented 1 August 2016 at 16:08

Perfect! Do you know a way to show the link only if the member's contact form is enabled?

In the field where you

onejam commented 1 August 2016 at 16:23

In the field where you created the link. Check the "Hide if empty" box. I think that might work?

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That didn't do it

cliffskier commented 1 August 2016 at 16:31

Nice idea, but the field always returns a link. Following the link leads to an Access Denied page if the form is not enabled.

Actually, there's no need for

onejam commented 1 August 2016 at 16:55

Actually, there's no need for the poor workaround.

I've just tested adding a User Views and the User: Link to contact page field. It works fine. You need to add Text to display and under 'No results behavior', check 'hide if empty'.

What Views version are you running?

This is the setup i have:

Drupal 7.50
views 7.x-3.14

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