Categories & Menu's

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8 years 10 months ago #243185

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.3 Business
-- Joomla version -- : 3.5.1

Hi,

What I want to have is a first-level category listing on the left side (no problem) and a detailled category view on top in a mega menu. For example 'clothes' and 'shoes' on the left side and on top further options in menu modules. For example a menu module called 'man's clothes' and another menu module calles 'women's clothes'.

Please note, creating a megamneu isn't the issue (I'm familar with that), however the category configuration is the issue.

After reading the docs/forum/FAQ I think the 'tags' option in Hikashop products doesn't offer any functionality in Hikashop itself. Hikashop tags are only of use when creating a link in a Joomla article to a Hikashop tagged product. Is that right? :unsure:

Assuming I'm right, this means I've to create detailled sub categories to get an overview (from the mega menu) to (for example) 'men's T-shirts'. So i've to create a category 'clothes' for the left side menu (=standard Hikashop category menu) and a second level category 'men's clothes' and a third level category 'T-shirts' (for the mega menu). As a result of this I need to store T-shirt XYZ in the cats 'clothes', 'men's clothes' and 'T-shirts' (1 product ==> several cats).
Is this the way I should configurate this? :unsure:

If my assumptions are right, how to deal with the cat 'T-shirts' ? In this case, there is a cat 'T-shirts' below 'men's clothes' and also there is (must be) a cat 'T-shirts' below 'women's clothes' (=2 sub cat's with the same name).

I tried to create this with characteristics and/or filtering, but I don't see a way to deal with this for the menus Filters and chars seems to work fine selecting details within a product or to fine-tune a selection, however they are not suitable for menus. :unsure:

Looking forward to any feedback/input.

Last edit: 8 years 10 months ago by pzaal.

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8 years 10 months ago #243267

Hi,

The tags system is indeed the Joomla one. It's usability is quite limited. So yes, it won't really help for what you want to do.

I'm not following you. Why do you need several categories in the product ?
You can only add the men t-shirts category to your product. When you click on "clothes", you can configure the menu item to either display the sub categories, or to display the products of that category, or to display the products of all the sub categories.

And having several categories with the same name is not a problem. The only requirement is that the alias of the categories needs to be different if you turn on the "remove categories and products ids from URLs" setting of the Hikashop configuration as otherwise the system wouldn't be able to distinguish between the 2 categories.

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