remove product listings under category listing pag

Hi,

See my website link : demetracabinetry.com/shop-online.html

"shop-online" is my only content menu with menu ID 131,"choose your configuration" is the only content module.

I want to set the filter module on the left of all the web pages,but before the user select the filter value,it shows the product categories only when clicking "shop online". But as now, you can see there are product listings on the bottom of all the pages. I don't want to show the product listings until user starts selecting the filter value.

How can I do that?

I am still quite confused with your instruction.

Don't quite understand what do you meant by ".... and include it in your article with the loadposition plugin of joomla. " How to do this?

Do you mean I should make the top menu item "shop online" as the type joomla article ,and create the "shop online" joomla article with the two images(which are the thumnails of the two top categories) in it and then add the link to the images ?

Possible to draw it out? Or I can give you the access of my backend login upon your request. Thank you!

New problems occur when I got the loadposition plugin of joomla :

1.When "shop online",now it takes me to the two top categories(which is what i want), but it just shows all the sub-categories in one column only(Please click "wall-mounted vanities") ,I don't know where to set the column quantity of the sub-categories.

Secondly when click into the sub-categories(mEco walnut bamboo vanities), no product listins appear. Please follow the website link here : demetracabinetry.com/shop-online.html

2.What you meant by "Then, configure your filter module so that it displays itself on both menu items.", as i understand each filter module can only displays in one menu only.

Nicolas,

Now, I am like in a puzzle ...

I did set the column number to the category listing module,but it can only affects the first layer of the category. See screen shot. But it doesn't affect on the 2nd layer of product category which are the color collections.

I've followed your instruction in your previous post, the categories/product listings seem working fine now...but the filter still doesn't work properly.

Here is what I did:

1.the category listing menu is named "shop online 1"(in order to avoid confusing in our conversation), ID 139.
2.the joomla article menu item is named "shop online" which is pointed to the article "shop online", and the loadposition plugin of joomla has been included in the article. ID 138. The menu option in its category listing module points to "shop online 1".
3.move "shop online 1" to "hidden menu" which is not displayed by a menu module.
4.assign filter module to be displayed in both "shop online" and "shop online 1" menu items. Set its menu ID as 139.

As far as the filters, I attached you a few screen shots here... please advise what i did wrong?

sorry,further to my last post, here are more screen shots.

" you have several filters with the same name and the module takes the other filters options instead of the ones you're looking at (you should check that)." -
I set one fitler module which takes all the filters options, see attached screen shot. Am i doing it right?

Nicolas,

I tried to remove the category restriction,but it works as the same.

Well, the fitler problem is:
Firstly the filters are set to be applied on the custom field, I set 2 filters, one on the width, one on the style, so there are 3 products I've input the custom field, so supposely the width values(which is something like 15,18,21) and the style value(which is comtemporary,traditional...) should apppear on the filter module on the left. However, when you look at my web page, it doesn't appear anything, only the filter names there.

Nicolas,

Thanks for the instruction, the cursor now appears there, but the problem still, when I selected the value,it doesn't return any searching result,the website doesn't even seems running the searching. I've set "yes" on "submit on click" , and "no" on "Dynamic display", category set on the top product categoy and including sub categories.

For the "style" filter, please see screen shot below.

I tried to solve this issue by starting over again with the set-up of the module & menu items.

The listings were working fine but just of a sudden, the product listings don't show up any more(the two top layers of category listings are fine still) when I am testing the filters, see below screen shot.Don't know what happened... I also attach some other screen shots for you to take a look. If necessary, I can provide a backend login for you to look into the problem.