Hi again
I am still strugling with some navigation issues on this site and I need some advice about it.
We have manu sub-categories, up to 7th step down.
In order to make products more available to user (and skip all the clicking on subcategories), my client asked me to do next thing:
When you click on one of the 6 main categories you get all products from all levels of subcategories randomly displayed. Optionaly, first sublevel of categories should be displayed as a side menu. When you go to next level subcategory, that menu should be synchronized and shows subcategories from the level you are curently in, and so on.
Now, what I did:
As main display on my site I used "menu item - category listing" to display list of categories as list on top of the page and products from all subcategories.
Also I made module in sidebar for categories listing with synchronize option "on" and it works fine (showing categories from the level user is curently on).
But, when user gets to the last level subcategory or to the product page - module dissapears and also the category listing on top of the page. I need this to be displayed even on last level subcategory listing, even though it does not have any subcategories. In that case it should display listing for parent category of the curently displayed. It has to stay that way also when you get to the product page. Is there any way to achieve this.
P.S. I use generated URLs for breadcrumbs, so it is not an option for navigation through all subcategories on the store. For example, when user clicks on a product (that is placed in a 6th level subcategory) from category listing displaying the third level subcategory, breadcrumbs skips all steps between third and 6th level. I attached some images for clarity.
Thanx