Force Vendor page to open on menu listing

IS there anyway to ensure that when a visitor clicks on a link to a vendor page, that they are always directed to a menu item I set up for that vendor.

I am using a menu item for vendor pages as I want to retain control of the URL of each vendor's shop.

Thanks for any help

Thanks.

I used this already, to open all vendors on my main vendor page: www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors.html

But what I want is to have each vendor page going to their own menu item, as I have set many different vendor pages, each with their own menu item.

I thought it would work the same as joomla article system - if their is a menu item for an article then it always defaults to that menu.

Thanks for getting back to me at the weekend!

What I mean is that I have these vendor page menu items:
www.saikungmarkets.com/andy
www.saikungmarkets.com/dedor-ahead-of-the-trend

But when I click on links to these two vendors the system links me to

www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/vendor/sh...ad-of-the-trend.html
www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/vendor/show/9-andy.html

I understand that I can control the menu item for all vendor pages in the control panel, which gives me the first part of the URL " www.saikungmarkets.com/vendors/ " but actually what I want is for the system to link to these vendor specific menu items as shown at the top.

The reason I want this is because I do not want their URL to change. Currently if the vendor changes their name, then the url also changes. Maybe the solution is to prevent them changing their name. But it would be useful if the system defaulted to specific vendor pages if the menu item exists.

I was wondering if there was any more progress on this? I want to do the same thing and came across this thread, but when I looked up a possible canonical link for vendors, I could not find one. Has it not been implemented yet?

I've already done that, but was wanting to know an update on whether there was any progress on canonical links for vendors. I guess I'll just be patient 'til there is. Thanks!

Thanks!