[Resolved] Cron Job - translated products displaying as not having attributes

Hi,

Here are the suggestions from our second-tier supporter.

I suggest they review our code which is triggered when you run that troubleshooting batch process.

That is handled in the file sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/troubleshoot/class-wpml-troubleshoot-sync-posts-taxonomies.php. They should note the function synchronize_batch. See how for each active language that calls a utility function to sync_terms.

That is defined in sitepress-multilingual-cms/inc/taxonomy-term-translation/wpml-term-translation-utils.class.php, with the actual functionality in the private method synchronize_terms.

We hope that this information will help you achieve what you need.

Regards,
Itamar.

Hi,

Reviewing your entire code/plugin is out of the scope of our support forum.

Please send us the code you added, and we will check if you did something wrong.

Otherwise, if you need further help with what you are trying to achieve, I would suggest you consider contacting one of our certified partners from this link:

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Regards,
Itamar.

Hi,

I've sent this to our second-tier supporter to see if he has any input.

I'll update you once I have his reply.

Regards,
Itamar.

Hi,

Our second-tier supporter wrote an example code especially for you with WPML API hooks to update product attributes of translations after programmatically updating product attributes of default language products. The following code demonstrates the concept to study and adapt as required. The second-tier supporter wrote this code in the context of a cron job callback to verify that it works in that context. In step 1, our second-tier supporter updates the product attributes of some test products in the default language. The subsequent steps are those that are relevant to you and should be self-explanatory.

For reference: https://wpml.org/documentation/support/wpml-coding-api/wpml-hooks-reference/

Here's the code:

add_action('wssupp_custom_cron_job', 'wssupp_custom_task_function');
function wssupp_custom_task_function() {

    // update the product attributes of a specific product as a demo
    $product_id = 21;
    $attribute = 'pa_color';
    $term_slug = 'yellow';

    $original_term = get_term_by( 'slug', $term_slug, $attribute );
    $default_language = apply_filters( 'wpml_default_language', NULL );

    // Step 1. Programmatically set product attribute for sample default-language post
    wp_set_object_terms( $product_id, $term_slug, $attribute );

    // Step 2. Get the translations of the product to other languages
    $product_trid = apply_filters( 'wpml_element_trid', NULL, $product_id, 'post_product' );
    $product_translations = apply_filters( 'wpml_get_element_translations', NULL, $product_trid, 'post_product' );

    // Step 3. Get the term translations
    $term_trid = apply_filters( 'wpml_element_trid', NULL, $original_term->term_id, 'tax_'.$attribute );
    $term_translations = apply_filters( 'wpml_get_element_translations', NULL, $term_trid, 'tax_'.$attribute );

    // Step 4. Iterate over the product translations and update product attribute for each
    foreach ($product_translations as $lang => $product_translation) {

        if ( $lang == $default_language ) {
            continue; // skip default language
        }

        wp_set_object_terms( $product_translation->element_id, $term_translations[$lang]->term_id, $attribute );
    }
}

We hope that this will help you achieve what you need.

Regards,
Itamar.