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Resolved mcdeth
(@mcdeth)

1 year, 2 months ago

I need to set specific custom meta field to a:0:{} only for products where the attribute pa_brand is set to specific value.

If I set this field directly in the import template, it gets created as an empty meta field for all products, which I want to avoid (I would get suddenly 30k empty meta fields)

Would the best approach be using the pmxi_saved_post action hook with php function? Or is there a better way to handle this? I don’t want to run this on every time I update the product stock

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Plugin Author Trey
(@ix3)

1 year, 2 months ago

Hey @mcdeth,

Would the best approach be using the pmxi_saved_post action hook with php function? Or is there a better way to handle this?

Yes, pmxi_saved_post would work best for this: https://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/action-reference/#pmxi_saved_post. The idea would be to check the brand value via $xml_node and then conditionally add the custom field with add_post_meta() or update_post_meta().

I don’t want to run this on every time I update the product stock

You can add custom logic to the code tied to pmxi_saved_post to only update the field when you want to.

Thread Starter mcdeth
(@mcdeth)

1 year, 2 months ago

Hi Trey, thanks a lot for quick answer, all clear now

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