Custom Product Attributes

Resolved v1images
(@v1images)

8 years, 2 months ago

Upgraded to Woocommerce v3.3.3 a few days ago and everything seemed to go smoothly. Tested what I could and was great to see WC Vendors working as usual.

A few days later I have had reports from my vendors and have tested myself to validate that the WC change with custom product attributes have become permanently a drop down option and no longer text entry. There is an ‘Add New’ button but this is where the issue is.

Administrator account, ‘Add New’ works and adds a new text based custom product attribute into the database. All vendor accounts can click ‘Add New’ and enter data, but when pressing ok to commit the data nothing is entered into the box or database.

May this be a user permissions issue with WooCommerce v3.3.3 and WC Vendors 1.9.14?

Anybody else experienced this or have a potential work around?

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Jamie Madden
(@digitalchild)

8 years, 2 months ago

Hello,

You are the first to report this, I will investigate it and get back to you.

cheers,

Jamie.

Jamie Madden
(@digitalchild)

8 years, 1 month ago

Hello,

You are correct. WooCommerce has removed this attribute type so there is no longer a safe way to allow vendors to add attribute terms. I will have to think about how to achieve this now that this has been restricted. I have an open issue on our GitHub and I would encourage you to follow up there.

https://github.com/wcvendors/wcvendors/issues/398

cheers,

Jamie.

Thread Starter v1images
(@v1images)

8 years ago

Brief update. By adding the plugin ‘Advanced Access Manager’ I was able to modify the default Vendor Role’s Capabilities to include the following as enabled:

Miscellaneous manage_product_terms
Miscellaneous edit_product_terms
Miscellaneous delete_product_terms

Also using the same plugin I could hide the additional menu in the ‘Backend Menu’ section, under the ‘Products’ dropdown you can tick to hide the following sub menus on the back end (although depending on your requirements you may or may not need to hide these):

Categories
Attributes
Product Export
Tags
Product Import

And now my vendors cn add their own custom terms to the database as they could before the 3.0 update.

Jamie Madden
(@digitalchild)

8 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for your update, however isn’t a solution for the majority of users. As this requires giving too much access to the vendors and then hiding menus from the admin area which I’m not included to do.

Giving your vendors complete rights to change all those terms means they can spam all your taxonomies. Sure you can hide the top levels but that doesn’t stop the fact you’re providing the access in the first place. Although this would work for you, this is not a solution that is available to most.

cheers,

Jamie.
Thread Starter v1images
(@v1images)

8 years ago
Completely agree Jamie, not a solution for everybody. Although if anybody needs a work around and can work with those risks then its possible to do.

In my case we are a group of close photographer friends who work to a rigid specification uploading images into the database driven by WordPress/Woocommerce/WC Vendors so easy to manage and ensure taxonomies are well managed and strictly policed.

Thanks as always for your response and your time to look at this issue when raised.

Jason
- This reply was modified 8 years ago by v1images.

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