Joomla Search Module display results from wrong menu

-- Joomla version -- : 3.7.4

Hi

I've been left and right, all over Google and different forums, and I can't seems to find a similar problem that describes the problem we're having.

Our website basically has 4 menus or "categories"
Menu_A: Home
Menu_B: Business
Menu_C: Telecom
Menu_D: EOL
- with sub-menus running off the 1st two menus only

The latter two were created to hold specific products, that was either moved from the 1st two menus or completely new.

The issue we are having is that when searching for a product, the url displayed in the results points to the wrong menu

Example, Product_A is listed under Menu_A, search results should display something like this:
www.mysite.com/Menu_A/Product_A

But ever since I've created Menu D, search results previously displaying as above has now changed to:
www.mysite.com/Menu_D/Product_A

I didn't move any products, but only created a new Menu from Joomla Menus

I'm not sure if this is a Joomla issue or a Hikashop issue as we use Hikashop to list all the products on our website.
If someone can point us in the right direction, all help is appreciated

Hello,

If you want to force a specific menu when you search for a product using the "Joomla search module", the solution will be to directly set the "itemid" option of your "HikaShop products search plugin" to the ID of your menu.

Best regards,
Mohamed Thelji.

Hi Mohamed,

My problem is that products are spread over the 4 menus, so how do you set it that so it will search through the 4 menus?

I'm not clear on how "itemid" works...

Best Regards
Karen

Also, another thing I've noticed is

We have a product listed under both Menu_A and Menu_B,
When you search for it, only the listing under Menu_B shows up on the search result and nothing from Menu A.
Under Hikashop products, what we've done is listed both menu under the categories since you shouldn't need to create 2 of the same product codes for both menus...
IE, Categories: Menu_A / Menu_B

Canonical URLs were left blank by default for all products.

HI Nicolas

Thank you for the reply,
Not totally clued up with all the technological explanation,
But from my understanding, we basically are assuming that the codes were set to smartly know which menu to look for.
Which obviously isn't the case as code don't just learn by themselves, but do as the code tells it to do

We have started to update all the canonical URL for our products,
Obviously it will take some time as we have over 300 odd individual products,
We didn't know to set canonical URL in the beginning, else it would have saved us a lot of time as it would have been done properly the first time when the products were created.