virtuemart category module

[nbirrell]

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows whether i can assign parts of my menu to act as a normal menu and not all as a virtuemart menu. For instance, in the following link http://www.sheedyvision.com.au/ I have my first menu item as 'BIOGRAPHY'. I'm wanting the first dropdown item of that menu item, which is 'About Kevin', to link to a single article instead of redirecting to a product category. Is this possible? Im wanting to only have the 'DOCK 10' menu item act as a link which goes to my online store.

Thanks

[Maxim Pishnyak]

You need to get rid of index.php in urls (with the help of .htaccess file)
sef stuff - http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=116282.msg391928#msg391928

THEN

You need to create menu item for your article.

Url of category with the name 'About Kevin' will point to the article with the same name.

Url redirection component in Joomla could be also helpful.

[nbirrell]

Thanks very much for the reply Maxim. I've located via firebug the exact link i need to change but I just cannot find the source file for it. All I'm wanting to do is change:

/index.php/component/virtuemart/biography/about-kevin

to

index.php/component/content/article/78-bio/71-kevin

Any ideas how to achieve this?

[nbirrell]

Sorry, I have removed the index.php from my urls. am still wanting to know how to change:

/component/virtuemart/biography/about-kevin

to

/component/content/article/78-bio/71-kevin

Thanks again

[Maxim Pishnyak]

You didn't create somewhere menu item directly to 'VM Categories' in general. Do it.

Are you sure that you have .htaccess file in your web site root?
Are you using professional shared web hosting?

Also be informed about this important thread http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=117507.0

[nbirrell]

Thanks Maxim but not really getting it. Simply want to alter the code so that it doesnt redirect to a product layout but to a single article. I know what needs changing but just cant find the file source to alter it. Thanks anyway.

[Maxim Pishnyak]

Simply want to alter the code so that it doesnt redirect to a product layout but to a single article.

Everything is fine, don't worry.

It's just necessary to setup more correctly your seo/sef web site system.

A normal sef url looks like this:
...YourDomain/CategoryName/ProductTitle-detail (or -html, if you change the setting)

So step by step:
1. Do you have .htaccess file with some content in your web shop root folder?

[nbirrell]

Is it simpler just to make a new standard menu and place it in the position of where the virtuemart category module currently sits? I am happy to do this however I think the menu won't be as visually appealing as the layout of the virtuemart category module.

[Maxim Pishnyak]

So you decided to bumb own thread in an interesting manner and don't follow advises that were given to you?

[nbirrell]

Actually Maxim I also got online help from the company who provide the template and they said that the virtuemart category module can only display product categories and not single articles like I'm wanting. So there you go.

[Maxim Pishnyak]

Actually Maxim I also got online help from the company who provide the template and they said that the virtuemart category module can only display product categories and not single articles like I'm wanting. So there you go.

Actually Nbirrell you got online help from the Virtuemart forum moderator who provide support for Virtuemart users and I said that the virtuemart category module could display link to an single article if that link is configured by special actions.
Here we are going?

[nbirrell]

If the moderators who design and supply the template say that it is not possible to achieve what I want then are they wrong or do they not know their own templates?

[Maxim Pishnyak]

It's not issue with template/module itself.

It's issue with you as VM user.

Do you want to use experience of extended using VM. Experience which was accumulated on this forum (in moderators memories).

Or you don't want to take and try this knowledge. It's up to you.

[nbirrell]

it is a virtuemart category module not a menu. I cant understand how i link an article to this module seeing as it only links to products categories when clicking on it. Could you carefully write down the steps if you think you have the answer as i creating a simple menu item for it is not possible.

[Maxim Pishnyak]

it is a virtuemart category module not a menu.

And?

I cant understand how ... .

Follow instructions that were given to you. Practice is sometime better teacher.

Could you carefully write down the steps if you think you have the answer as i creating a simple menu item for it is not possible.

Could you carefully quote instructions that were ALREADY given to you. Quote them and describe what you can't understand in this or in that etc.