Category Drill-down different from menu

Hi,

Something I am struggling with (on several hikasites) is that if I drill down to a category from an upper category, it displays differently to selecting that category via a menu.

In this image, the menu 'Magnet' is selected, and displays the categories (as expected) if I drill down to the Ferrite category, it displays its subcategories (but not as a product table as is the case with the ferrite menu:



But if I select the Ferrite Category from the Ferrite Menu (a sub of the Magnet menu) I get the product table (as I want)



link to working site

How do get the drill down through categories to display the same as if it was selected via the menu?

Hi Nicholas,

Yes I had checked that initially. All 3 set to Table

I have just rebuilt the menus - just in case there was a glitch. But still the same.

I am thinking that I may not have explained enough and what I am trying to achieve may not be possible.

My Shop categories are as follows:

Magnets
- Group 1
---- Type 1A
---- Type 1B
---- Type 1C
---- Type 1D
- Group 2
---- Type 2A
---- Type 2B
---- Type 2C
---- Type 2D

I have three menu's

Magnets
- Group 1
- Group 2

'Magnets' - Cat-Div with Direct subs, and Assoc Module with 'Direct Subs' (If I set this to All subs, I get a huge list, which I dont want. For this level I only want Cat-Div.
'Group 1' - Product Table with All Subs. (No Ass Module)
etc.

So, Magnets menu when pressed, displays > Categories (Group 1, Group 2,.. etc). When category 'Group 1' is selected, it will drill-down to the next level of categories (Type 1A, Type 1B, Type 1C, Type 1D). When one of those is selected, it will then display products in table view.

When Group 1 menu is pressed, it opens up all products of the categories (Type 1A, Type 1B, Type 1C, Type 1D) in Group 1 as table listing - as intended.

Is it possible to have 'Magnets' drill-down, but when it gets to Group 1, it displays Group 1 the same way the Group 1 menu does (and not as a category list)?

Sorry for the essay

Hi Nicolas,

Thanks for the reply. Yes makes sense that it is not possible.

But I think I change around it by creating an alias in sh404sef so that the layout I dont want will go to the layout I do. (I think that will work).