How to prevent auto generation of associated modul

-- url of the page with the problem -- :currently ofline
-- HikaShop version -- :HikaShop Business: 2.2.3
-- Joomla version -- : 3.2.1
-- PHP version -- : 5.3.1
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Firefox 26
-- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : none

I have a main menu with an item called "Shop" which is configured to show the top level product categories as a Hikashop content menu item. The categories display just fine with a custom template, but every time I make a change to the content menu settings and save it iHikashop generates an associated product listing module which I don't want. Sometime it say I have saved without an associated module but when I go back into it the module is still there. I try and delete the module and remove the association but each time another one is generated. In the back end I can have the module is shown as unpublished (see screenshot) but I am still seeing products displayed under the categories.

Hi,

I think that the easiest way is to change the options of the menu to display only the direct sub elements, and not have products in the main category, by this way you will have only the categories displayed.

Or you can create a Joomla article for your shop page, and include a category listing module inside.
Doing like that, you will have the desired content.

Hi Xavier,

I have been doing all those things and much of the time it's ok, but I still get these modules generated which clutters up the modules listing and makes it even harder than it already is to track down which module is doing what.

What made this a big problem for me was that in the main configuration I had set, in the default options for DIV's, the "Type of item layout" to be a custom template I had made for categories. I have a lot of category pages and I thought this would help speed things up. Because this is a category template it doesn't exist for products. When a product display module is randomly generated it tries to use this default template setting. Because the product display module has been automatically configured with a template it can't find visiting the associated category page from the front end in a browser generates a Page not found ERROR 500 even if the product display module is unpublished. In other words this "feature" broke my site in a totally random and unexpected way. It iis also quite hard to delete or unassociated these product modules as they keep being regenerated.

So please - feedback from a user - make it possible to turn off the auto generation of product display modules!

Thanks,

Ian

Just to add to this, I am finding that if there is a product module associated with a category menu item the product module is displayed regardless of whether it's published or not..

Ian