category listing module/product listing

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I have been hours trying to figure out how to open a products listing from a category listing module link. I read all the documentation and I'm sorry to say I couldn't. For sure I'm doing wrong some steps. But I don't know which ones. A category listing module in the right sidebar of my website is presume to open a product listing under each category link, but the page that open is blank, no products. I have no subcategories, it is a simple site. I'll appreciate a lot if you tell me step by step what should I do. Thank you so much for your help.

Hi.

I didn't have any "categories on level 1" module but I created one with the exact parameters that show the tutorial and nothing new. The categories links don't open the products listing page. What I missed?

My new module has this config:
show title: Y
publish: Y
type: category
layout: list
column: 1
items: 6
random: No
ordering: ascending
subs: direct subelements
assoc. category: 2 product category
sync: No
menu: Categories listing

PARAMETERS FOR CATEGORIES:

ordering field: category_ordering
show: all direct subcategories
link on main........Y
show number products....N
only categories with products....Y

THE MENU ITEM FOR THIS MODULE is as following:

show description: Y
publish: y
type: Product
layout: Div
column: 3
items: 15
random: No
ordering: ascending
sub: direct subelements
assoc. category: 2 product category
assoc. module: (the module above)
use menu name: No
Parameters for products: ordering
link to product page........Y....etc..

Please, tell me what is wrong to show in a homepage position the categories listing module with links to products listings under each category.

Thank you for your patience and help,

Robert

Hi, Nicolas, I have similar problem, and I can not get it running.
I need show category list and products list in diferent pages (we have more than 100 diferents categories). In order to get this, I generate Joomla Menu option type Hikashop>>Category with url path "/catalog/subjects" associated to it, this menu option show correctly category list (call it A).
Also I generate Hikashop content module to show a product list and I associate it to another Joomla Menu option type Hikashop>>Product with URL path "/catalog/products-by-subject" (call it C).

Then, at Hikashop Display menu, select "content menu" associated to A and at "assoc. module:" option I asigned C module.

The problem is that whatever I do (I've tried multiple combinations) each category link, always have "/component/hikashop/category/id-subject" path and don't show any product. It looks like it is ignoring "assoc module" option.

What can I do?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, after hours of extensive reading of topics (more than 150) I found a topic called "Product URL Canonical & Product doesn't exist" that turn on a light in my brain.

I looked at Configuration->Characteristics->SEF URL Options->Force Canonical URL (I have spanish versión and I don't know if translations are exact). And it had "Use canonical" (same problem with two "use canonical" options).

When I change this option to "No, generate URLs", I found it Works!!!
It would be great if you put a WARNING IN YOUR TUTORIAL about this problem. This could save many searching solution hours to users.

Thanks

Hi,

Thank you for you feedback, we will see how to improve the documentation about that.

Hi,

I have multiple issues with a categories listing menu I am trying to build on a website. Here is the url: www.iartunique.com/index.php/gallery

Under Gallery menu, I have created the listing products for each category and they are working fine.
On the left side, I am trying to create a list of categories but it doesn't work correctly. One of the main problems is that I am getting twice the submenus of Painting, Photography & Miscellaneus artwork. Becides that, here are the settings and the issues that I am experiencing on each case of type layout:

- Type of content --> Category
- Sub elements filter --> All sub elements
- Menu --> Gallery
- Type of layout -->
a) When I set it to Div and then click for example on Paintings which is under Painting category, I don't get any results and the breadcrumbs is correct, but when I click on the Paintings which is on the first level, the results are correct but I don't get the name of the category on the breadcrumbs.
b) When I set it to List, whichever of the above mentioned categories I press, I get the correct results but the breadcrumbs is not working.

Please, help me, it's the second day I spend on this. On another topic, Nicolas suggested to rebuild, so I rebuilt the menus and the hikashop categories, but nothing changed.

Thanks in advance,
Dora

Hi Jerome,

You might not have noticed it, but I shared the page url above and the issue with the duplicated categories is shown clearly. I have attached a screenshot of the front end, on which the marked areas are not supposed to be there. I also attach the screenshot of the module configuration.

Thanks!

Thank you Nicolas for your response. As described above, I have a compination of issues... Now that I have set the "Sub element filter" to "direct sub elements" I don't get the complete paths on breadcrumbs.

a) When I set it to Div and then click for example on Paintings which is under Painting category, I don't get any results and the breadcrumbs is correct, but when I click on the Paintings which is on the first level, the results are correct but I don't get the name of the category on the breadcrumbs.
b) When I set it to List, whichever of the above mentioned categories I press, I get the correct results but the breadcrumbs is not working.

I'd prefer to keep the Div layout, cause a List adds the text "No subcategories" under single categories and the arrow click is useless at this point.

Could you help please?

Thanks!

Hi Nicolas,

I am not sure how this happened but now the module works fine. For another reason, I deleted the gallery content menu and one of it's subcategories and recreated them. Later, when I set again the menu Gallery to this sidebar module, it worked.

Thanks again.

Hi again,

I am afraid this issue appeared again and I am so disappointed... I don't know what to do... I have been dealing with this for 3 days now... I even recreated the menus and the submenus earlier, but had no luck. Please, help!!!

I pm to Nicolas the admin details, in case you need them to take a good look.

Thank you

As described above, there is a case where I get the correct breadcrumbs, so I don't think that this is causing the issue, I have already set the "simplified breadcrumb" to "No". Please, read carefully the different issues I have in each case:

a) When I set the layout of the module to Div and then click on a subcategory, for example on Paintings which is under Painting category, I don't get any results and the breadcrumbs is correct, but when I click on the Paintings which is on the first level, the results are correct but I don't get the name of the category on the breadcrumbs.
b) When I set the layout to List, whichever of the above mentioned categories I press, I get the correct results but the breadcrumbs is not working.

Regards,

Can anyone help please?