Multi-tiered navigation issue

I set up a navigation menu that has a Category 1 and it has additional sub categories (Brand 1, Brand 2, etc). The rest of the navigation items are other categories that point to Brand pages that simply show products, like:

Left Navigation

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Category 1
-> SubCat1 --> Product Page for Brand 1
-> SubCat2 --> Product Page for Brand 2
-> SubCat3 --> Product Page for Brand 3
-> SubCat4 --> Product Page for Brand 4
Category 2 --> Product Page for Brand 5
Category 3 --> Product Page for Barnd 6
Category 4 --> Product Page for Brand 7

Here is the issue - if you click on Category 1 and THEN click on SubCat1,2,3 or 4 IN THE PAGE TO THE RIGHT (NOT the navigation), it shows a different url string for some reason associated with each SubCat page: www.domain.com/Category1/category/listin...33/name-subcat1.html and clicking on them then takes you to a blank page with no products showing.

WHAT WORKS - if you click on SubCat1 in the navigation, you get a url of: www.domain.com/Category1/SubCat1.html that in turns displays all the products in that category.

So the simple question is why does the URL generate differently on a page instead of a menu link when it should remain the same - both pointing to the SubCat page?

My short term solution was to change Category 1 type of content to Product instead of Category, which then shows a blank page I could theoretically populate with some products, but that isn't the solution I want.

By the way, would anyone know how to populate a page with best selling products? Is there code that could be added to a HikaShop module to display on my blank Category1 page in Product mode, based on product sales totals of the SubCat's, in decending order?

Thank you for any help!

~Michael

www.zombiepicks.com/

I think I may have deleted the modules by accident as I couldn't figure out what they were doing. What I'm going to re-try is tearing down and deleting the menu structure I have and building it over from scratch. I would assume this will rebuild everything I need?

Yes, that did work! Thank you. I was going to ask what exactly the content modules were, but I now understand I guess they create the "content" part if you are displaying a category not product to the right. So if the menu category itself is set to display products, it ignores this, while if the category is displaying other categories, this module can be used add additional content below the sub category listing?

So, the first category I made was Guitar Picks, then the other 3 top categories. Then I added Alchemy Gothic as a category (SubCat) below Guitar Picks. If I go into the admin for the Guitar Picks Menu, on the right it offers configuration Parameters for DIV, and this is where I can customize the backgrounds, margin, etc. And it is at the menu's list of categories I saw ID 153, 154, etc which gave me the indication of which Content Module was related to Guitar Picks! I'm glad to finally be able to wrap my head around this!

Now, if I go into the "Associated products listing for category listing menu 153" which is guitar picks, I have another configuration page almost identical to the Guitar Picks Menu configuration page. This leads me to some hopefully final questions:

1. This is where I can add products to display under the categories at the top of the Guitar Picks page, so it can display BOTH the categories and some other products? It looks self evedent but I want to be sure.

2. I see you can add Parent Categories here, but no type of custom module? I'd like to not only randomize products here if it does that, but also the best 2 selling guitar picks from each sub category like Alchemy Gothic, etc etc. I asked in my first post, is this possible?

3. If I want to add yet ANOTHER sub category under say, Alchemy Gothic, is this possible? Is there a limit to how many sub categories you can go deep? I am assuming I should add ALL the menu items at the Joomla Menu configuration which will automatically generate the hikaCart menu options and appropriate modules?

Thank you so much for your help!!!! I know lot's of questions, but I think I almost have it all now!

~Michael