RESOLVED:Understanding Associated Products Modules

Hi,

1. Yes. It does that for your convenience so that you don't have to manually create the associated modules.

2. Yes, but then it would display the products listing... I don't see why you would want a category listing menu without being able to reach the products of the categories ?

3. Yes, you can remove them. And you don't have to click on the link if you don't want one.

4. You can rename them, that's not a problem at all. One thing which is great is to only have one module and associate it to each category listing menu. That way, you have only one options screen for all the products listings of your category listing menus.

5. In some cases, HikaShop might create automatically the products listing module associated to the menu if it sees that you didn't associated any module to it (as I said in point 2, I don't see what would be the goal of a category listing menu without products listed too...). If you associate your module to it, it won't create another one anymore.

6. Yes, you can have several modules associated to a listing menu.

1. No. That option of the menus allows you to display products listing modules at the end of the main display area of your template when on are on that menu.
So if you have a categories listing menu with a products listing module associated, you will get the listing of the sub categories of the current category at the top of the main area, and then the listing of the products of the currency category below it.

2. It indeed has nothing to do with product pages. It's only for listings.
An associated products listing module is required for a categories listing menu. If you don't set it (it's actually generated automatically by HikaShop), you won't see any products listing in the main area when you click on your categories.

3. Yes, if you don't activate the synchro, it will always display the same products. The way it's used normally is with the synchro option on. That way, by default it displays the products of the "associated category" of the menu, and when you click on the category of the menu, it displays the products of that category automatically.

4. This hikashop content module is a "one size fit all". So you can have instances of it for associated modules of menus, or at the bottom of the product page with the 'modules under the product page' option of the configuration, or anywhere on your template if you leave them published in the modules manager (that way, you can for example have one instance of it as a carousel on the home page, another for the latest products on the left column, etc).

5. Right.
No. You need to have a products listing module there which is synched with the menu. That way, it won't display any products on the first page, but then, when you click on a category, it will display the products of that category, as I explained already above.
If you don't set a products listing module there, the menu will never display a products listing
For examples, just look at our demo website...

6. See previous points.

7. Yes, these points are moot

8. When you have a products listing menu, the menu itself displays the products. So you don't need an associated module. You can have one, but then you will get two products listings.
When you have a cateogries listing menu, the menu displays the categories. So you need to associated module in order to display the products of the categories when needed.

1. No, that option does not have any meaning for associated modules.
It's only useful if the module is displayed on the product page, which is not the case for an associated module.

2. That is mainly useful for category listing modules. Because when you have a category listing module displayed somewhere, when you click on a category link, it has to display the sub categories/sub products in the main area, so in a menu. Thanks to that option, joomla will know which menu to use for that display.
So for associated products modules, that option is not useful.

Hi,

After validating the popup, you need to click on the save button at the top to validate the settings of the menu. Only then will the associated module modification be taken into account.

Hi,

You of course need to click on this one to validate the popup. But you also need to click on the "save" button at the top of the page after that: take.ms/o1IcA