Question attributes/custom fields

  • Resolved barb55

    (@barb55)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    we need to add several characteristics to our products that will also be displayed on the product page. Most of these characteristics involve unique values though, i.e. serial number or product content. So the values for these are never the same for two products(unlike color for example, which could be the same for several products). So how would you advise/recommend for us to set the characteristics up? Using attributes does not seem like the best way since we would end up with 600+ values for each attribute. Would you say it is better to use custom fields?

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  • Hey @barb55,

    It might come down to where you want them to display. Custom product attributes can be used and they’ll appear automatically in the product tabs on the product page. If you need this information to appear elsewhere on the product page, then custom fields would most likely be easier to implement. Either one should be possible though.

    Thread Starter barb55

    (@barb55)

    @3sonsdevelopment Thanks. How could I use the filter widget though if I use custom fields?

    That’s a great point. The filter widget will only work with global attributes. Custom fields and custom product attributes can’t be used to filter via the widget.

    Thread Starter barb55

    (@barb55)

    @3sonsdevelopment that was my question: How could the widget be modified so that you can filter by custom field?

    I don’t know of any way to do that. The filter widget essentially applies query strings to the end of the URLs. WooCommerce has built-in functions to filter results based on these. There’s not a built-in mechanism to do the same for custom fields.

    So it’s not just the widget that would have to be modified but the mechanism that actually does the filtering.

    I did some searching for a plugin that does this and came up empty. You could get someone to custom code this for you if you want to go that route.

    https://woocommerce.com/codeable/

    Hey @barb55,

    Since we haven’t heard from you in a while, we’re hoping that means you were able to get this resolved. I’m going to close this thread out now.

    If you’re still having trouble, please open up a new topic and we’ll be happy to help out.

    Cheers

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