Hi,
If any of you require this, I describe how I resolved this below. However, it'd be good to implement as a feature.
"Categories list" is an attractive and useful menu. But it has no option to display sub-categories of a chosen category, only ever displaying the top categories' list. This makes the menu practically usable only once on your site!
For example, my categories are structured as:
A
-A1
-A2
-A3
B
-B1
-B2
-B3
C
-C1
-C2
-C3
"Categories list" menu does not appear customisable at all, always displaying pictures for A, B and C only. This is not good for me at all, because some of my categories are used for filtering only and should not even be displayed out. Instead, I need to use the layout similar to "categories list", with thumb picture for each category, to display A1, A2 and A3 or B1, B2 and B3. And I have just resolved it by some [very] minor hacking. This is as far as my hacking goes I'm afraid but I hope it'll be useful to someone so sharing a solution.
I noted the URL of "Category layout" menu structure:
index.php?option=com_eshop&view=category&id=1
I noted the URL of the "Categories list" menu which doesn't give an option to select the category:
index.php?option=com_eshop&view=categories
Then, I replicated the the structure of the "category layout" url to the "categories list" as such:
index.php?option=com_eshop&view=categories&id=1
So, as you see, I supplied the id of the category whose sub-categories I require to view in the "Categories list" layout. This was implementedusing a "System Links -> External URL" menu supplying it the URL constructed above. Of course, you need to look up the id of the category whose pictures you want to display in this layout.
I think this should be implemented as a feature because, surely, many would like this option.
Thank you.
Regards,
Oksana
