Category ID is shown in the URL's

Hi,

This is indeed the setting.
Note that if you have entered a "canonical URL" in your category, and you also have the "force canonical URLs on listings", then the canonical URL will override the dynamically generated URL. So in that case, you want to clear the canonical URL field of your category, so that you can either reenter the correct URLs or let the system regenerate them on the fly.

Hi,

That's correct.
In that case, then when you turn off the "remove the product and category id" setting, the id will be removed from the category URL.

I looked at your website URL, and I couldn't find ids in the category URLs anywhere, until I reread you first message and saw that you were talking about language change. And now I understand that your issue is about the URL generated for the Joomla language switcher on the category menu items.
We've actually improved the URL generated there several times to handle different cases in the past year. It seems that you're in yet another special case we didn't take into account.
Could you provide a backend access and a FTP access along with a link to this thread via our contact form so that we can do some debugging and check your settings so that we can look into the problem ?
www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html

Hi,

Thanks, we got the backend access. But we really need to be able to edit the files on the website. So we'll need to wait to be able to look into it.

Hi,

Thank you for the access.
I was able to do some debugging and improved the URL generation on the language switcher to only add the cid parameter on the category listing when the current menu item is directly linked to the current category.
That seems to work fine and thus we'll also add the patch in the next release of HikaShop.

Hello,

Please, provide relative setting screenshot to your categories, of your module switcher, Url link to frontend with the issue and any elements that can allow us to reproduce your current issue.

Awaiting your elements to be able to progress on your subject.
Regards

Hello,

Sorry for this return, but these elements didn't allow us to progress on your subject, and so in order to progress on your subject can you provide these elements :
- An Url link with issue
- A step by step process to reproduce your issue
- Backend access (Url link & backend user references)

Awaiting your returns to progress on your issue.
Regards

Hi,

Sorry for the delay. The weekend was in the middle and I was not available yesterday.
I've tried to reproduce the issue on my end but I couldn't and I checked your settings on your website but couldn't figure out why it would do that.
We'll need to add a bit of debugging on your website to better understand the situation.
Could you also provide a FTP access via our contact form along with a link to this thread for reference ?
www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html

Hi,

Thanks for the access. I found the issue.
It comes from a lack of backward compatibility with some menu items in the integration with the language switcher module.
Would you have deleted your menu items and recreated them with the same options selected, you would not have had the problem.
I've added a small patch so that it can work even without this, as it is to be expected.
It's now working fine on your website as far as I can see.
The fix is quite easy to add for anyone interested. You just need to add the code:

if(empty($p->selectparentlisting) && !empty($p->category))
							$p->selectparentlisting = $p->category;

if(empty($p->selectparentlisting) || $p->selectparentlisting != $cid) {