Virtuemart 3 Category Module that drills down to products

[johnlanglois]

We have moved from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.36 and VM 3.0.2.
We lost all of our modules that would permit the listing of categories with images and a subsequent drill down to the product because they don't work in VM3.
We are willing to pay for something that works in VM 3, but so far nothing succeeds.

Can anyone suggest a product?
We also used to have a link, such as https://www.ourdomain.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=category&limit=5000&page=shop.browse&virtuemart_category_id=0 that would list the entire catalog.
Now all that gets us is an UN-formatted list of categories with no items.

Surely, this level of functionality should be standard in all VM versions by now.  Why was it removed?

[balai]

I would suggest you to change the structure of your shop and use 1 of the existing filtering solutions.
Categories are not meant to give attributes to the products. They can be used for a very basic classification.

Then there are custom fields which can give your products additional attributes.

Using a filtering extension you can have a simple and comprehensive category list and several filters from custom fields for refining further the filtering

[jenkinhill]

I have many times warned that there is no reason to move to J3.x until all required extensions have been made available for that version.  The custom filters extension is available for J3/VM3 ( http://breakdesigns.net/extensions/custom-filters ) but I don't know which extension you are referring to.

The url to display all products has not been "removed" and works fine for me, it uses the standard category list view, tested using J3.3.6/VM3.0.2 with the default VMBeez template.

[johnlanglois]

Thank you JenkinHill for a great lead.  That plug-in did exactly what I wanted.  It is sad that having invented that wheel, the VM developers then left it out of the new product.  The erratic nature of VirtueMart development is a main reason that I putting new clients in WooCommerce on WordPress.  It's much easier to control functionality and find specialized tools.