Product and Category listings not correctly linked

Hi - I'm hoping that you can help me solve a problem with my product and category listings.

If I go to a back-end product listing in Hikashop via menu link 'Products/Products', the Explorer displays the top-level category 'Product category' with all the subordinate product category titles listed below, but the right hand screen is showing an empty listing field.

When I subsequently click on a product category in the Explorer list, that category opens in the right hand screen to display the contents of the selected product listing. This part is functioning correctly, and I can add and edit the products as necessary.

However, if I go to a back-end listing via menu link 'Products/Categories', the Explorer shows the top-level category 'Product category' as before with all the subordinate product category titles listed below. This time the right hand screen displays the full item list of categories with 'Image' 'Name' 'Order' 'Published' and 'ID' all populated and displaying correctly.

But if I click either any category name in the Explorer or 'Name' link in any of the listed items, an empty listing field opens instead of the expected product item listing - so the two 'sides' of the listing function are not linked. This also means that front-end user menus display empty listings - 'Your search returned no results'. How can I get the one view correctly linked to the other?

Thanks for your help.

PS. I'm using Joomla! 2.5.6 with HikaShop 1.5.8.

I am not sure if I understand you correctly. What you are saying is that if you click on HIkashop -> product-> categories->category_name then you don't see any products under category?? If this is the case, then everything is ok. The section "Categories" is only for managing categories, not the products in those categories.
If you go to hikashop->products->products, that is where you will get the category explorer on the left and the subcategories or category content ( depending on what category structure you have set up) display on the right. From this view you will be able to edit the products ( and not the categories )..

Hope that helps

Hi gidgie,

Thanks for your explanation - I was just surprised that the 'live' link from HIkashop -> product-> categories->category_name opens to display an 'empty' category and not the actual product listing for that category. I thought I'd broken something (again)!

Thanks again for the information.