How to set catalog_visibility (in basic plugin)

  • Resolved pir1

    (@pir1)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    we need to set the “catalog_visibility” field (as named in postman), but it does not seem to work the way we try it.

    We use an ERP system to push the products to our woocommerce shop. The system does not include the option to push the catalog visibility (not the extension, but the basic setting on the right side, when in the single product – just below “published on”). What we can do is create a custom field in our ERP, connect it to an article attribute and thus push the settings we need.

    When I check the product with postman, the field we want to set is called “catalog_visibility”.

    We thus created a field in our ERP with the exact values visible/catalog/search/hidden as we see in postman and tried assigning the article attribute “catalog_visibility” and also “_visibility” (but I think this one is for the extension plugin), but it didn’t work.

    Has anyone any idea, which attribute (the name) we need to use, to set the visibility of the product?

    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by pir1.
    • This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by pir1.
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  • Thread Starter pir1

    (@pir1)

    Interestingly, we just found out, that both of the attributes we tried to use (_visibility and catalog_visibility) are now shown on the product page (as a tabel) under a tab called “additional information”, with the value we tried to transfer.

    In the backend it is pushed in to the Product “properties” tab.

    So it seem the values we push are pushed into woocommerce, but not where and how we want it.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by pir1.

    Hi @pir1

    Thanks for reaching out!

    I understand that you are using a third-party solution to push the products to your WooCommerce shop, however, the system does not include the option to push the catalog visibility.

    I replicated the scenario, however, using the built-in Product CSV Importer and Exporter with the following values only:

    Currently, the product’s Catalog Visibility is set to visible or Shop and search results. Importing the CSV updated the current status to hidden. Hence, I can confirm that the field catalog_visibility and the values visible, catalog, search, hidden are correct.

    You can learn more about that from here: Product CSV Import Schema

    Meanwhile, since this involves a third-party plugin which we don’t provide support for (please see our Support Policy), it would be best reaching out to the plugin’s developers for further assistance here.

    All the best and hopefully, the issue will be fixed soon.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter pir1

    (@pir1)

    Hi @xue28,

    thank your for your answer. We can push meta fields AND article attributes. Would the catalog_visibitliy not be an article attribute? Or are you saying catalog_visibility is not pushable at all?

    Thanks!

    Hi @pir1

    I am not sure what you mean when you say article attributes here.

    But based on the built-in Product CSV Importer and Exporter, these fields are working properly as expected.

    You can ask on these channels for further support since we don’t provide support for third-party plugins:

    Hope this helps!

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