Category Filters not working

Hello,

From what I see the result you get is strange... Can you screenshot your fully opened category tree and if possible provide an Url link with your filter please ?
From what we know I don't see where can be the root issue, awaiting news from you.

Regards

Hi,

The "dynamic display" setting of the filter makes it so that it will only display the categories of the products in the current listing. Turn off that option of your filter. So in your case, you might want to turn it off.
Also, for category filters, you're supposed to select ideally the same category in both category settings so that the filter display in the category you want with its sub categories as values of the filter.
So you'll have to create several filters if you want to have a category selection filter on different categories.

Hi,

The filter will apply on the products displayed by the menu item, so first you need to make sure that the menu item used displays all the products by default.
In the filter module settings, you have the "menu" setting where you can enter the id of the menu item used.
So please check that setting and the options of the menu item corresponding to the id specified in that setting.
Also, could you provide a link to the page so that we could look a the behavior in order to better understand the situation ?

Hello,

We are sorry but you will need to detail your needs because so far we aren't sure to understand your question.
Can you details with by example, concrete examples, context description and maybe an Url link.

Awaiting news from you to move forward.
Regards

Hi,

There is no option to do that.
You would have to modify the code :

if($filter->filter_data=='category'){
			$categories_name=parent::getCategories($filter, $datas);
			if(!empty($categories_name)){
				foreach($categories_name as $cat){
					if(!empty($selected) &&  (is_numeric($selected)&&$cat->category_id==$selected) ||(is_array($selected) && in_array($cat->category_id, $selected))){
						$html.='<li><a class="hikashop_filter_list_selected" style="font-weight:bold">'.$cat->category_name.'</a>';
						$html.='<a style="cursor:pointer; text-decoration:none" onclick="document.getElementById(\'filter_'.$filter->filter_namekey.'_'.$divName.'\').value=\'\'; document.forms[\'hikashop_filter_form_'.$divName.'\'].submit();" title="'.JText::_('REMOVE_THIS_SELECTION').'"> <i class="fa fa-times-circle"></i></a></li>';
					 }else{
						$html.='<li><a class="hikashop_filter_list" onclick="document.getElementById(\'filter_'.$filter->filter_namekey.'_'.$divName.'\').value=\''.$cat->category_id.'\'; document.forms[\'hikashop_filter_form_'.$divName.'\'].submit();">'.$cat->category_name.'</a></li>';
					}
				}
			}
		}

Hi,

Well, that would require some development.
It requires a MySQL query to load the images from hikashop_file using $cat->category_id and then you need to use helper.image to generate the thumbnail from that data using the getThumbnail function like it's done in the view category/listing_img_title.php
It requires you know PHP to be able to do that.
If you want us to work on that customization for you, you can use our contact form to request a quote :
www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html
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