Thread: Auto Populate Contact Us

I'm attempting to have our contact us page auto populate. When the customer goes to the Contact Us page, currently we have them enter their Name, Phone, Email and Message. To help avoid them typing wrong information, I want to have it auto populate if they already logged in.

I know the C# code that I need to write to populate this but I was wondering since our Contact Us page is a topic page (www.hostname.com/t-contact.aspx) where is the form in the solution I can go into and edit with?

Thanks,
Zach

In your version the entire form is contained within the topic, so you wouldn't be able to use C# code to auto-populate the values unless you added some code to parse through the topic after it was rendered to the page and make some string replaces. Provided you have the source, an alternative may be to create custom tokens (topics parse skin tokens) that you could use directly within the topic, eg.
Parser.cs -> BuildPageDynamicTokens()

Code:

m_DynamicTokens.Add("(!CONTACTNAME!)", CommonLogic.IIF(ThisCustomer.IsRegistered, ThisCustomer.FullName(), String.Empty));
m_DynamicTokens.Add("(!CONTACTEMAIL!)", CommonLogic.IIF(ThisCustomer.IsRegistered, ThisCustomer.EMail, String.Empty));
m_DynamicTokens.Add("(!CONTACTPHONE!)", CommonLogic.IIF(ThisCustomer.IsRegistered, ThisCustomer.Phone, String.Empty));

Then in the contact topic:

Code:

<tr>
    <td valign="top" width="102" align="right">*Your Name:</td>
    <td valign="middle" width="348" align="left"><input name="Name" size="27" id="MailName" value="(!CONTACTNAME!)" type="text"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td valign="top" width="102" align="right">*Your Phone:</td>
    <td valign="middle" width="348" align="left"><input name="Phone" size="27" id="MailPhone" type="text" value="(!CONTACTPHONE!)"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td valign="top" width="102" align="right">*Your E-Mail:</td>
    <td valign="middle" width="348" align="left"><input name="EMail" size="27" id="MailEmail" type="text" value="(!CONTACTEMAIL!)"></td>
</tr>

In versions 9+ the contact us page is an actual page where you could make your modifications to auto-populate the fields.