Help with Product Layout in Category settings

Hi,

Hopefully someone can shed a little light on an issue I'm having. I'm looking to have some products on a store I run to be in multiple categories, but have differing layouts depending on the category. Is this possible? To clarify I need some products to be displayed in both categories.

The specific issue is when I set the product layout for eg. the Hire section, it effects how the product is being displayed in the Sales section, and vice versa. Is this the normal behaviour for this setting or am I doing something wrong? The layout which gets used seems to be from the latest saved category and overrides the other categories product layout settings. I have tried a few variations or settings and seem to get the same results including:

Sales has 'inherit' setting, Hire has custom layout setting.
Sales has specific setting which is my default style, Hire has custom layout setting.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Regards.

Hi there,

i think you found the right option with the layout setting of your module.
However, the layout should be different so i guess you're doing something wrong.
What's the layout you have set in your main configuration? The layout of your Hire category shouldn't change it so maybe there is something here (in one of our version there was an issue with it).

So take a look in System>configuration>Display>Layout on product page and see what's the value here. Make sure it's not inherit.
You can also try to update to our last version (2.2.0) in order to enjoy new features as well as some bug fix which might solve your issue .

Hi Eliot,

Thanks for the quick reply. I have checked all the settings and they seem to be as they should be, but upon investigating I discovered something else which makes this even more confusing.
But first, my settings read:

Configuration Product Layout: show_sales.php
Sales category Product Layout: show_sales.php / also tried Inherit
Hire category Product Layout: show_hire.php

Right now the Hire style seems to be overriding the Sales style everywhere for the products I'm working with, all except for one of them, which has the Sales style overriding the Hire style, but that seems to make even less sense.

I also applied the new update but it did not fix this issue. I am going to test this out with a fresh website/install and see if there is something wrong with this current site/install.

edit: I have tested on a blank server and still seem to be having the same issue. I can set up access for you if thats any help however.

I figured as much, right now they are both in the root however.

Heres the needed information, I presume this is displayed correctly:

Essentially the difference between the two layouts is that Sales has the price info, the Hire layout does not.

I just took a look at your website and it seems your menu are empty (even after login).
Could you please display few products so we can observe the different layout?

Ah, my mistake, had moved something around.

Should be working now.

Thanks

Just a heads up but this issue is still outstanding, I need to get this working as the deadline is approaching shortly. I there was any confusion over the previous post the 'should be working' was referencing the test products I had set up to test with.

Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding, I didn't communicate myself properly.

Thanks for taking a look Nicolas.

I see. So even if I set Sales to be "show_sale" instead of "inherit" the products within Sales will still inherit "show_hire" because they are within that category too?

What I'm essentially looking for is to have a selection of products to appear in the Hire category that are also in Sales, but in Hire I do not want the same layout that displays the price etc.

Edit:
Just as a reference, this is what I have right now.

Ah, that makes sense. I think I was slightly confused and coming at this from the wrong angle

Thanks very much for your help Nicolas

Hi,

I understand if a product is in one category or another the layouts selected for that category will apply.

So, is there a way to have a product in both categories BUT with different layouts for Sales and Hire to give two different views of the same product depending which category we are viewing it from?