I am testing a setup with nested categories: so I have a top level category with no articles, used to group a number of sub-categories.

e.g. top-level Continents, sub-categories of Europe, Asia, America, etc.

Items are then created in the sub-categories.

I then added a menu item to view the items in the continents category. This nicely shows the continent category and description, and the sub-category names and descriptions, but then includes a list of all the items in the continent categories below that. I want to hide these item names, so the user would first click on a continent and then see the items for the continent chosen.

How do I do that?

In general I am a bit confused I think about how a nested category situation works with respect to front end navigation. A pity that there is no documentation for K2 and that the videos either don't really help except for specific situations or are too long to watch through!

Try setting the catelog mode to yes in your top category params

Thanks William. That's just what I wanted.

Welcome

William White wrote: Try setting the catelog mode to yes in your top category params

What if i don't have a Category item layout? I was searched and searched but no one talk about that. Installation was finished without problems. I work in Joomla about 1.5 years but new on K2, and i really don't know what i need to do.

Joomla 1.7
K2 v2.5.1
Articles are imported from joomla.

William White wrote: Try setting the catelog mode to yes in your top category params

and thanks from me too, that is just what I was looking for!

I have exactly this same problem. However, I cannot see the option called catelog mode Where does this hide. The menu item type I've setup list all categories. When I look in the options for all categories there is no catalog mode? What am I doing wrong. (I'm using the latest 1.7.3 Jooma)

I've been playing with this now for 3 days trying to get it to behave & it's driving me nuts. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Daniel,

You have to set it at the Category's options parameter.

your category -> Category Item Layout -> Other Layout Options -> Catalog Mode

Thank you for responding, however I cannot find that setting. Do I go into category manager then look for that option or do I look in menu manager?

Sorry to be so thick! I'm sure I'm looking in the wrong place.

Hi Daniel,

You can have a look at this screenshot. My category name is Sample.