Associated Modules not showing

Business 1.4.9

If in the 'content men' display configuration the 'Type of content' is set to product, the associated modules are not displayed below the select button. Instead if set to category the associated modules are display. I have tried on the hikashop demo website and it is the same as on my test server. Is this a bug?

We couldn't reproduce the problem on the demo website.
We went to Display->Content menus, edited the menu "categories listing" and changed the type of content to products. We then saved the options. After refreshing the front end of the demo website and clicking on the "categories listing" menu, we could see the listing of products empty at the top (you can see the title) and the associated module below which displays three products, as expected.

Sorry may be I was not clear in my explanation. These are steps in demo.hikashop.com/administrator

1) go to Hikashop admin
2) go Display -> Content Menu
3) select Product Listing
4) go to 'Associated Modules' click select and choose a module and click ok
5) click on save
6) re-enter to edit 'Product Listing'
7) the associate module chosen does not show.

If you change the type of layout from product to category and click save/apply the associated module does show.

Ah yes, the associated modules links are only displayed for category listing menus.
It's not really a bug. Just that it's how we did it.
But I agree that it should also be displayed for product listing menus. We'll add that in next release.

Thank you for your report.

Is it also correct that if you:

1) create a new category menu
2) choose not to associate any module with this menu
3) visit the created link the front end

that the system then automatically associates a module. Because if you in to the back end of the hikashop -> menu displays and view the newly created menu options now there is an associated module, even though none was set.

Yes. We automatically create an associated module for category listing modules when none is published for it in order to simplify the configuration for users.

Is it right that the system is creating multiple versions of the same module: For examples we have

Associated products listing for category listing menu 411
Associated products listing for category listing menu 411
Associated products listing for category listing menu 411
Associated products listing for category listing menu 411
Associated products listing for category listing menu 411

All exactly the same different id number

That should not be the case.
However, if you remove the module from the associated modules option of your menu, hikashop would indeed recreate the module automatically. Would that be the cause ?

In any case, having several of them is not really a problem although it can become difficult to manage on some views. You can of course delete the ones which are not associated with the menu.

And without changing the automatically produced title is there any way to understand which module associated with the menus items

Sure. When you're in the menu's hikashop options, on the associated modules option, you can click on a direct link to the hikashop options of the associated module(s) of your menu.
You can also click on the select button there and see which modules are published for that menu.

okay. thanks