2 step category issue

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11 years 1 month ago #164737

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Hi Hikashop team,
I am stuck on the category and bread crumb issue. I have a 2 category menu that is category and then subcategory. when I go to the subcategory everything is working but when I use the bread crumb to drill back to the parent category I show two different category sets. i have 6 test products total so it seems that the bottom one is correct but I can't get the top one to go away. I only need the parent category to show all of the products available for the site. for some reason it is showing some products at the top then what seem like the correct one all of the products on the site for the second one.

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11 years 1 month ago #164778

Hi,

We would indeed need a link to the page in order to be able to analyze the issue.
Please use our contact to provide the link along with a link to this thread.

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11 years 1 month ago #164969

Hi,

We got your contact request, thanks.

The issue here is that you have a products listing menu item with an associated product listing module. So you get two products listings on the page.
You need to edit your menu item (id 274) via the menu Display>Content menus, and disable the associated module by clicking on the "select" button of the "associated modules" option there.
That will remove the second products listing.
Then, just make sure that you configure the options on that page so that it displays the products you want and not the 4 products that you have now. It could come from several options so I can't say precisely what you do. If you could provide a screenshot of the options of the menu, I should be able to tell you.

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11 years 1 month ago #165133

Ok I have done that but if you look at the page again. Now i don't have anything for the sub-menus. If I added the associated module back then I get the products for the sub-menus. My guess it would be hard to tell what going on just by looking at the site now. here is a screen show of my configurations. Let me know if you need more information.

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11 years 1 month ago #165161

Hi,

Ok, I see what you mean. So what you need actually is to change the "type of content" option of your menu item to "category" and enable back the associated products listing module.
That way, it should work at all the levels.

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11 years 1 month ago #165207

With that I get the the products back in the sub-menus but then get the category and module for the top parent bread crumb link. That option would put the unwanted module for that that top parent menu and add category listing. I was look to have all products for the top parent menu only and still show the products for the sub-menu. Below is the desired breadcrumb tree..

Top parent menu to show all the products on the site.
parent categories to show all the products for that category
sub-menus to show the products for that menu.

I am going to send you another email that may have some helpful info in it.

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11 years 1 month ago #165252

It's normal that you get the categories listing when you click on the breadcrumb category links. That's the way it is supposed to work.
There is no option to have at the same time a categories listing module on the left (which has to be linked to a categories listing menu) and that the category links of the breadcrumb not display the sub categories listing (as it would mean that the current menu should not be a products listing).

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11 years 1 month ago #165355

Hi Nicolas thanks for the replies but I don't know think your responds corresponds with my original issue. I think we went off topic. Let me understand

In order to see the products in the sub-category i have an associated module? If the answer this is yes then how do you get the extra module from showing up in the top parent category? I should not be force to have the extra module under the top parent content category.

If the answer is no then like other post in this forum I can't see the products under the sub-menu.

The only way to see the products in the sub-menu is to add an associated module.

If i associate a module with the content menu and choose the option "no" for publish it still shows under the menu content.

So what you are saying is that you have to have the associated module for the content menu which would show... (1st showing top- parent content, 2nd one showing the associated module) or disable the associated module and see no products under the sub-categories?

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11 years 1 month ago #165356

Hi,

Yes.

You have a menu item which is set as a categories listing.
So it displays the sub categories of the current category.
attached to it is a products listing module (it is disabled in the Joomla module manager, but enabled as associated module, that's why you see it at the bottom of your page, and not in the position of the template where you can set it in the module manager) which displays the products of the current category.
So when you arrive on the menu, you see the sub categories of the main category and no product since there are no products directly under the main category. And when you click on a sub category, the menu displays no categories as there are not sub categories of that category and the associated module displays the products of that category.
And as you can see, you have one set of options for the categories listing menu, and one set of options for the associated module. That way, you can configure differently the categories listing and the products listing.

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