Our products are imported via API (via Erply cloud retail software).
In its main language, it displays the variations nicely, but in foreign languages, the variations are not automatically synchronized, but only displayed when the translation is saved.
But every time products are re-synchronized via the API or product information is changed in woocommerces, the variations are lost. It's a big problem when variations disappear after every product update.
I have understood from the support forums that you always have to save and the variations are not automatically created for the translations?
I have tried various troubleshooting and syncings suggested in your forum but it doesn't work for us.
Yes, what you have said is correct, if you are adding each time new local attributes you need to save and translate them for them to appear in 2nd language, as without translation they do not exist.
Another way, is you create global attributes, translate them, and then in your import match existing ones. In such case you will also probably need to re-save the product for sync to happen or write some custom code for the import plugin, to achieve more compatibility with WPML, for example using correct hooks and triggering the save_post hook. It is just a guess from my side since I am not aware of how the plugin works.
Please note we can not help with custom coding or custom plugins, but you can hire a WPML contractor or invite plugin authors to our compatibility program and we will be glad to help.
function refresh_woocommerce_products_on_save($post_id) {
// Check if the post type is 'product' to make sure it's a WooCommerce product.
if (get_post_type($post_id) === 'product') {
// Refresh the product to update its data.
wc_delete_product_transients($post_id);
// Use WPML function to synchronize custom fields.
do_action('wpml_sync_all_custom_fields', $post_id);
// Check if the product is variable (has variations).
if (get_post_meta($post_id, '_product_attributes', true)) {
// Get the variations of the product.
$variations = get_posts(array(
'post_type' => 'product_variation',
'post_parent' => $post_id,
'numberposts' => -1,
));
// Loop through variations and refresh/synchronize each one.
foreach ($variations as $variation) {
wc_delete_product_transients($variation->ID);
do_action('wpml_sync_all_custom_fields', $variation->ID);
}
}
}
}
// Hook into the save_post action to trigger the function when a product is saved.
add_action('save_post', 'refresh_woocommerce_products_on_save', 10, 1);
