Associated modules

-- HikaShop version -- : Business 2.3.3

I'm having a huge problem in understanding the concep of the "Associated modules". I've read the documentation again and again and I still can't undersatand it.

I have a Menu Item configured as a Product Listing of a chosen category. And it works perfectly, when in the frontend I click that menu option, I get, as I would expect, a list (in a DIV layout) of the products inside the chosen category.

I supose that the purpose of the Associated Module is to display, below the Product Listing of this Menu Item, the content of the associated module. And, because in this Menu Item, I only want to display the products inside the chosen category, I left empty the option "Associated menu". Are my assumptions correct, is this the way the "Associated module" option works?

Hello,
As it's said on the documentation : www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...html#categories_menu

A category listing menu is only displaying the categories by itself, so that's why there the "Associated modules" option. Once you display once your menu on your front end, you should get a products listing module generated automatically and added to that "Associated modules" option. That's this module which will display the products listing under the categories. So, you can personalize the listing of the products by going in the menu Display->Content modules and editing the module associated to the menu you created OR by just clicking on the link of the module in that "Associated modules" option. You will again see lots of options to configure your products listing the way you want it.