Categories are not appearing

[The big]

As you can see I have updated category description (for a test) but categories are not appearing

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[The big]

any ideas on what has to be done next?

[jjk]

Looks like your multilanguage configuration is incomplete. Please check your Joomla multilanguage configuration settings as well as your VirtueMart multilanguage configuration settings. You may compare your settings with the information available here: http://docs.virtuemart.net/tutorials/36-multilingual-store/99-multilanguage-setup.html
There are also some tutorials available on YouTube.

I can see a number of issues on the frontend of your shop.
1. Some menu items don't have a language tag assigned to it. On a multilingual site EVERY menu item should have a language tag.
2. You need a menu pointing to each of your categories, one for each language.
3. You need one menu item pointing to the homepage for each language. In your case one french home and one english home.

Also, please check, if your english language product descriptions are in the english language product tables ending with en_en in the database and the french are actually in the fr_fr tables.

[The big]

I've already done all of that and I already have a french and english home page.

In your first point you said that some menu items need to be assigned to a specific language.
Indeed, there is a menu that does not have any tages, this is normal, it is used for the terms of service.

I had reset all the tables two days ago, and the default categories were already showing, its just when I had deleted them to do new categories.*

[The big]

any other suggestions?

[PRO]

do you have the descriptions filled in for all languages?


& products are NOT assigned to special shopper groups right?

[jjk]

I've already done all of that and I already have a french and english home page.

Currently I don't see language tags for most of your menu items. When you over over any menu item, you should see either the fr or the en language tag in the url.

In your first point you said that some menu items need to be assigned to a specific language.
Indeed, there is a menu that does not have any tages, this is normal, it is used for the terms of service.

If you want your bilingual site to work correctly, each menu item has to be there in both language and every menu item needs a language tag. Otherwise the Joomla router (the piece of code which produdes the SEF urls) will frequently produce wrong urls and might redirect users i.e to the homepage. However, you may decide to unpublish some menu items, but they must exist.

I had reset all the tables two days ago, and the default categories were already showing, its just when I had deleted them to do new categories.*

When you deleted your categories, I suppose it is likely that your products are not assigned to the old category ids anymore. Check your database tables with phpMyadmin and look into the category tables (i.e. _virtuemart_categories_en_gb) and product tables (i.e. _virtuemart_product_categories) if your products are still assigned to the correct category ids.

Finally, I still don't see neither a french nor an english menu on your homepage which points to your individual shop categories. Also, your shop menu links should be configured to use the menu item type 'Virtuemart Categories layout'  or 'Frontpage'.

You can see a working example if you follow the link provided in this post: http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=110005.0 Note the language tags in the urls if you hover over any of the menu items with your mouse.

[The big]

yes description is filled in for all categories and no products are not assigned to particular shopper group.

But, lets say I uncheck  the Multilingual shop, and just keep everything in English, and I create new products assigned to new categories created, the categories still do not show, but products do!
Why is that, how can I fix it?

[The big]

At the moment, I just want the categories to be fixed.
Would it be at all possible me giving you credentials for you to log in at the backend, and check for yourself, it would be much quicker than going back and forth?

[Maxim Pishnyak]

Asking about half-multilingual web shop (only resolving categories issue) is close to be half-pregnant.

Come one, it's not so complex to do full multilingual setup on your web site.

[The big]

But I've gone throught the steps about creating a multilingual shop.  Two languages (different modules and different menus assigned to a language).  Everything was working nicely before

[jenkinhill]

The multi-lingual store tutorial has just been updated:  http://docs.virtuemart.net/tutorials/36-multilingual-store/99-multilanguage-setup.html

[The big]

Hi, Okay I've followed al the steps that were shown on the video, but the categories are still not appearing.
Could you please help me, this has been going for too long now 

[Maxim Pishnyak]

You could pm me access and I'll try to help.

[The big]

Any news on how to fix this?