{{blocks}}, category settings and parent/root category settings about groupscatalog2 HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for your report.
The issue occurs because the layer model uses the root category as the default current category.
A bit longer explanation:

1. The product list block uses the layer model to fetch the product collection
2. The layer model always sets the current category.
3. If there is no current category set, the layer model uses the store root category as default
4. The store root category is loaded
5. This fails because that category is hidden by the rules you set

The exception is triggered because in effect a non-existant root category is assigned to the current store.

There is no easy way to change this behavior, besides making it impossible to hide root categories. In most cases this would be no problem, since the root category is rarely used in stores besides it's function as a container for all normal categories. It would certainly break your setup since you seem to rely on having the root hidden.

I suggest you rework your rules so you don't hide the root category, but instead rely only on regular categories.

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Thanks Vinai, hiding the root category seemed like the most elegant architecture for a members only store, I'll see how else I can go about this.

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The problem only occurs if the root category is hidden and you the try to use the product list block. If there where an easy way to fix this I would be happy to do it, but so far I can't think of a clean way to do so.

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