Automatically creating variations from attributes

  • Resolved vincentjflorio

    (@vincentjflorio)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    
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    This isn’t an issue/complaint, but a how-to request.

    Using the REST API, I have been able to add code to the functions file that creates a bunch of products which automatically have variations assigned to them. Elegant, and cool!

    If I go and visit those products on the back end, they’re already variable, they already have their attributes, but you have to create the variations using the normal method of hitting the button and them being spit out magically on the product edit screen.

    IF that has already happened, I can use the API once again to iterate through all the variations for a given product and assign them prices.

    What I haven’t been able to figure out how to do is give them prices to begin with (I can add a price in my code for the parent, but it doesn’t even show up for the parent if there are variations, and of course doesn’t go into the variations as it seems that’s read-only by default)…

    …and, secondly, I would love to pieces to know if there was a programmatic way to ask those variations to be made via code instead of the button-pressing. I saw another thread here where Mr. Jolley said it was possible but that no solution existed yet that was already pre-made…I am not looking for free code or to take up too much of anyone’s time…but..if it IS possible…where would I start? Is there a hook or filter I could dive into the code to read about? What’s making the button you have to press tick and how could I emulate it?

    The basic setup we have is that people are registering and opting into what kind of products to have created for them. As of this moment, they get created but they have to go into each product and generate all of them and add prices manually after the fact, so it doesn’t feel like much of a time savings past a point.

    Which isn’t a slam. Woo does a lot of cool things by default, and this is a little out there. But knowing that it could be done, I just wanna know where to sniff to get started. Any insight is helpful. God bless!

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  • Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley

    (@mikejolley)

    From the API, I don’t think you can trigger creation in bulk. You much define each option in your calls. And you can include prices – there is a variations endpoint.

    Thread Starter vincentjflorio

    (@vincentjflorio)

    Wow, with how busy you are covering so many bases online, I didn’t really expect a response, especially so soon. Thank you for your commitment (even if you hadn’t responsed =)

    The variations endpoint is actually the first thing I tried, but I couldn’t get it to work. It was of course never broken , I just didn’t fully understood what I was doing. I had everything from the documentation samples on there, but it wouldn’t click.

    As it turns out, my problems were three-fold:

    1. I was trying to make it all happen at once, which is probably a bad idea from a modularity/NSPOF standpoint anyway.
    2. Even though the documentation explains it clearly, I thought the ID when making a variation was something that was returned from somwhere else or generated on the fly, perhaps referring to the parent. It really is just the ID for the attribute, which is independent from products and can be referenced manually or pulled with a ‘get’ from a product that happens to have it already assigned.
    3. For whatever reason, the docs have ID and ‘option’ and just that didn’t work for me; I could make something new and the price showed up, but it didn’t assign the variation’s name to it. I think I figured if the option was “XL” that it would pull that down since that was an existing assigned option name. Adding “Size” (which happens to be one of my attributes) along with the other two pieces made sure it not only got made, but automatically assigned itself to the appropriate option.

    To my joy and surprise, in spite of myself, it works instantly! When I viewed the product edit page, I checked Variations and they were already built out, just as if someone had pressed the button and gone through it manually!

    Amazing! God bless! =)

    NP Thanks again

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