[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Force Vendor page to open on menu listing ## - **[roojai](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile")** - [![roojai's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/9880-roojai) Less More - Posts: 29 - Thank you received: 1 - - 11 years 3 weeks ago [\#218188](#218188) by [roojai](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile") *[Force Vendor page to open on menu listing](/forum/23-market-how-to/880021-force-vendor-page-to-open-on-menu-listing#218188 "IS there anyway to ensure that when a visitor clicks on a link to a vendor page, that they are always directed to a menu item I set up for that vendor. I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* was created by *[roojai](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile")* IS there anyway to ensure that when a visitor clicks on a link to a vendor page, that they are always directed to a menu item I set up for that vendor. I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzIzLW1hcmtldC1ob3ctdG8vODgwMDIxLWZvcmNlLXZlbmRvci1wYWdlLXRvLW9wZW4tb24tbWVudS1saXN0aW5nP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile")** - [![Jerome's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar80.png)](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/80-jerome) - HikaShop core developer Less More - Posts: 26400 - Thank you received: 4079 - - [](http://obsi.dev) - 11 years 3 weeks ago [\#218189](#218189) by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") Replied by *[Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile")* on topic *[Force Vendor page to open on menu listing](/forum/23-market-how-to/880021-force-vendor-page-to-open-on-menu-listing#218189 "IS there anyway to ensure that when a visitor clicks on a link to a vendor page, that they are always directed to a menu item I set up for that vendor. I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* Hi, You can use the setting "Vendor default menu" [ www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/1...onfig\_market\_display](http://www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/143-hikamarket-configuration.html#config_market_display) Regards, --- Jerome - Obsidev.com HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team. 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I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* Thanks. I used this already, to open all vendors on my main vendor page: [ www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors.html](http://www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors.html) But what I want is to have each vendor page going to their own menu item, as I have set many different vendor pages, each with their own menu item. I thought it would work the same as joomla article system - if their is a menu item for an article then it always defaults to that menu. Last edit: 11 years 2 weeks ago by [roojai](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile"). 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I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* Hi, I'm not sure to understand what you want to achieve. The link you gave is a link to a vendor page. So what is "their own page" ? Regards, --- Jerome - Obsidev.com HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzIzLW1hcmtldC1ob3ctdG8vODgwMDIxLWZvcmNlLXZlbmRvci1wYWdlLXRvLW9wZW4tb24tbWVudS1saXN0aW5nP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[roojai](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile")** - [![roojai's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/9880-roojai) Less More - Posts: 29 - Thank you received: 1 - - 11 years 2 weeks ago [\#218359](#218359) by [roojai](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile") Replied by *[roojai](/forum/user/9880-roojai "View roojai's Profile")* on topic *[Force Vendor page to open on menu listing](/forum/23-market-how-to/880021-force-vendor-page-to-open-on-menu-listing#218359 "IS there anyway to ensure that when a visitor clicks on a link to a vendor page, that they are always directed to a menu item I set up for that vendor. I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* Thanks for getting back to me at the weekend! What I mean is that I have these vendor page menu items: [ www.saikungmarkets.com/andy](http://www.saikungmarkets.com/andy) [ www.saikungmarkets.com/dedor-ahead-of-the-trend](http://www.saikungmarkets.com/dedor-ahead-of-the-trend) But when I click on links to these two vendors the system links me to [ www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/vendor/sh...ad-of-the-trend.html](http://www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/vendor/show/12-dedor-ahead-of-the-trend.html) [ www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/vendor/show/9-andy.html](http://www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/vendor/show/9-andy.html) I understand that I can control the menu item for all vendor pages in the control panel, which gives me the first part of the URL "[ www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/](http://www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/)" but actually what I want is for the system to link to these vendor specific menu items as shown at the top. The reason I want this is because I do not want their URL to change. Currently if the vendor changes their name, then the url also changes. Maybe the solution is to prevent them changing their name. But it would be useful if the system defaulted to specific vendor pages if the menu item exists. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzIzLW1hcmtldC1ob3ctdG8vODgwMDIxLWZvcmNlLXZlbmRvci1wYWdlLXRvLW9wZW4tb24tbWVudS1saXN0aW5nP3RtcGw9bWFya2Rvd24=) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile")** - [![Jerome's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar80.png)](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/80-jerome) - HikaShop core developer Less More - Posts: 26400 - Thank you received: 4079 - - [](http://obsi.dev) - 11 years 2 weeks ago [\#218394](#218394) by [Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile") Replied by *[Jerome](/forum/user/80-jerome "View Jerome's Profile")* on topic *[Force Vendor page to open on menu listing](/forum/23-market-how-to/880021-force-vendor-page-to-open-on-menu-listing#218394 "IS there anyway to ensure that when a visitor clicks on a link to a vendor page, that they are always directed to a menu item I set up for that vendor. I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* Hi, HikaShop have a feature for the "product canonical" and it can generate unique links for products. In HikaMarket 1.4.2, we introduced the "vendor canonical" column in the database but for the moment, that feature is not supported. I wanted to be sure that all issues that users had with the product canonical were closed. With the automatic generation of canonical or users who enter incorrect values for the product canonical, I still see various issues and I'm still not fan of it and I don't want to include such kind of feature if it generate more issues that it will solve problems. So, that's why, for the moment the best is to use the vendor listing menu. After that, you could use a SEF component in order to perform URL "translations" ; but the canonical support in HIkaShop is not really for my point of view to be integrated into HikaMarket for the vendor canonicals. And I'm waiting for the new router system in Joomla which will provide new possibilities to create a more flexible routing system (in HikaShop and HikaMarket). Regards, --- Jerome - Obsidev.com HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team. 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I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* I was wondering if there was any more progress on this? I want to do the same thing and came across this thread, but when I looked up a possible canonical link for vendors, I could not find one. Has it not been implemented yet? 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I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* Hi, HikaMarket have a setting in order to specify the Joomla menu ID used for vendor pages. See "default vendor menu" : [ www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/1...onfig\_market\_display](https://www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/143-hikamarket-configuration.html#config_market_display) Regards, --- Jerome - Obsidev.com HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team. 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I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* I've already done that, but was wanting to know an update on whether there was any progress on canonical links for vendors. I guess I'll just be patient 'til there is. Thanks! 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I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop. Thanks for any help")* Hi, > And I'm waiting for the new router system in Joomla which will provide new possibilities to create a more flexible routing system (in HikaShop and HikaMarket). The new router system would be available in the next Joomla major release : Joomla 3.7 Regards, --- Jerome - Obsidev.com HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team. 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