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VirtueMart 2 + 3 + 4 => Product creation => Topic started by: remohead on June 08, 2012, 12:48:20 PM

Title: Product Category Question
Post by: remohead on June 08, 2012, 12:48:20 PM
Hi Guys,

Im a bit of a virtuemart noob although i've been using joomla for a while. Im on the latest versions of joomla & virtuemart.

Ive created the following categories

Bath Products
- Bath bombs (containing 2 products)
- bath melts (containing 0 products)
- bath salts (containing 1 product)

I have set up a menu item to a virtuemart category view so when clicked it shows my Bath products sub categories.

So I then have the bombs, melts, salts sub categories available to select.

the problem is all products are showing in all selections, eg. if I click bath bombs it is showing the products in the salts category, and vice versa - if I click melts (which currently has no products) it is showing the products in bath bombs and bath salts.

any idea how I can stop this happening?

many thanks, Chris
Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: katkins12015 on May 21, 2013, 09:17:24 AM
Hi Chris,

I am having this same issue, did you ever get to the bottom of this and get it working as it should?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: PRO on May 21, 2013, 11:41:15 AM
do you have a menu link to virtuemart frontpage?

Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: katkins12015 on May 21, 2013, 14:33:53 PM
My menu buttons link to a virtumart category page

Is this not the correct way to do things?
Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: katkins12015 on May 21, 2013, 14:38:42 PM
I have changed one of my menu items to front page, now when I click the link I see all categories, is it not possible to display only certain categories related to the title given to the menu button?
Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: katkins12015 on May 21, 2013, 14:43:37 PM
In addition after changing to front page, when I click a category which I have sub categories in these are not present and I therefore can not continue to drill down to my products, these sub categories do have products in them.
Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: PRO on May 21, 2013, 16:32:54 PM
Quote from: katkins12015 on May 21, 2013, 14:38:42 PM
I have changed one of my menu items to front page, now when I click the link I see all categories, is it not possible to display only certain categories related to the title given to the menu button?

you need to ALWAYS have 1 link to the vmart frontpage.

THIS can be in a hidden menu

Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: katkins12015 on May 21, 2013, 16:58:27 PM
okay thanks,  can you tell me where the option is to hide it?
Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: PRO on May 21, 2013, 20:11:18 PM
Quote from: katkins12015 on May 21, 2013, 16:58:27 PM
okay thanks,  can you tell me where the option is to hide it?

you can have MANY menus in joomla,.


BUT the menu ONLY shows, when you publish it in a module

Title: Re: Product Category Question
Post by: highcoding on May 21, 2013, 21:18:12 PM
You can create a menu that you would put in a module position that won't be called anywhere in yout template file. This way the menu is active but hidden.