Add a link to display VM category but not to menu

Hi all,

I am looking to use the bottom modules for my customers to search by colours.

What I am looking to do is add a new category for Red, then associate the Red products to that category, so when someone clicks on the 'Red' link, it will display a list of all 'Red' products.

Is there anyway that I can do this, without allocating the Red Category to the Main Menu.

I am looking to have the one of the bottom modules called 'Filter by Color', which will have Red, Blue etc.

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Prit

Why don't you simply use custom html module and add the links manually or do you have too many colors to add
Alternatively there are commercial filtering extensions / modules for virtuemart which you can find in joomla extensions > virtuemart extensions.

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Hi,

Thanks for your e-mail. Currently what I do is create the Category, then create a menu in the 'Main Menu' and assign that category to that menu. This enables me to get the URL. Then what I do is use the bottom module and use the category as an external link.

The problem occurs when I unpublish the category from the menu and get the 404 page cannot be dispayed.

What I would like to happen is not have the category appearing in a number of places, but simply have a number of categories in the bottom menu.

I hope this makes sense and someone can assist.

Thanks in advance.

Prit

Why don't you create a menu item for shop frontpage and call it "Shop" and access your category links from there so you only have 1 menu item in menu and then you can get links to categories from there then links should work fine in your bottom modules.

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Hi,

Thanks for you quick response. Is it possible to link to the category without creating a menu item. As in literally have a link from the bottom module URL directly to the required category?

Thanks,

Prit

You can but then that would make your urls funny such as below.

www.mysite.com/component/virtuemart/category/item

So I suggest you just create 1 single menu item, menu item type Virtuemart > Front Page and call it Shop. You don't have to have this menu item in main menu.

Simply create another menu and add it there as long as it is active joomla won't complain.

So then you can access your categories from this link and get their links as well as keeping a nice user friendly urls.

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Hi,

Thanks again for your quick response - that worked perfectly.

Thank you very much for your help - much appreciated.



Prit

No problem at all, see you around...