Custom attributes created with importer issue

  • Resolved JavierP3

    (@javierp3)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hello team,

    I am working on a website with over 2000 references in stock, so I created and imported a CSV with all the items using the built-in WooCommerce import. There are around 8 custom attributes created for these items. All custom attributes were created automatically when importing the CSV file, each had columns Attribute Name, Attribute Value, Visible…

    I had created the attributes with same names prior to this inside Product->Attributes but when importing, these product attributes won’t be seen in “Products -> Attributes”, they can be seen when checking any product info, that’s not what I expected but I don’t mind since it works.

    Now I was looking for a good Product filter plugin that would let me show and filter these custom attributes. After testing some, I can’t seem to make it work with none, since all allow me to filter by using the Attributes in Products->Attributes, but as I said… They were not linked there despite having the same attribute name, and they were not created there either by the importer. All I have are some “ghost” attributes that are existing and working but I just can’t choose them for any plugin (or I can’t seem to know how to make them work).

    I tried inspecting the elements for these custom attributes…

    woocommerce-product-attributes-item woocommerce-product-attributes-item--attribute_madera-noble is one example of custom attribute in a Product, this is composed of 2 columns:
    woocommerce-product-attributes-item__label which is name of attribute.
    woocommerce-product-attributes-item__value which is the value of the attribute.

    Is there any way for me to use all these information and import it into Attributes so I can link them to any filters plugin?

    Or is there any other workaround this? Any help or input is appreciated as long as I don’t need to manually change 2000+ references or data.

    I know many plugins would have let me do this if the Attributes were created in Attributes but for some reason they were not and there are too many variables to make it manually so I am forced to do it this way. My custom attributes are only seen when going inside each product and I’m stuck ??

    Thank you very much

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  • Plugin Support RK a11n

    (@riaanknoetze)

    Hi there,

    it sounds like the attributes that were imported were set to local scope (meaning they exist *only* for that product, despite having the same name across all products). Just to check, does your CSV file flag each of your attributes as global (more information at https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/wiki/Product-CSV-Import-Schema#csv-columns-and-formatting)?

    Thread Starter JavierP3

    (@javierp3)

    I just checked and they are indeed not global…

    I had created the column for each attribute to be global or not but since not all attributes are the same/shared between all references, I thought it would be better to not make it global.

    By making all attributes global and importing the products again all this should be fixed?

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by JavierP3.
    Thread Starter JavierP3

    (@javierp3)

    Sorry for wasting your time.

    It was all about the custom attributes not being set as GLOBAL.

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