Magento – Programatically set visibility to “Not visible individually” for other store views

multistoreproductproducts-management

When we create / edit product, then we select category and website, for store views whose category is not selected, the visibility should be set to "not visible".

Is it possible by default?

Best Answer

Not possible by default, no. You could try to write an observer for catalog_product_prepare_save, which is dispatched from the product save controller and receives the parameters product and request.

But with a single save, only one store view can be saved, so you cannot achieve what you want with manipulating the product object alone. You have to save the visibility attribute directly. Fortunately, there is a method for it:

addAttributeUpdate($code, $value, $store)

$product->addAttributeUpdate('visibility', false, $storeId);

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CE 1.7.0.2 – How to Update Product Attributes for Multiple Store Views at Once

If you wanted this as a feature you can write a module, and observe the save product event and loop through all the stores and either:

condition based looking for "english" if they are named like that
hardcode the id's
provide a configuration option in the admin to select the english stores.
add an attribute to the store object

Another way to do it as a one off:

<?php

require '../app/Mage.php';

$englishStore = 1; // English Store (the one you want to copy from)
$attribute = "short_description"; // Attribute to copy

foreach (Mage::app()->getWebsites() as $website) {
    foreach ($website->getGroups() as $group) {
        $stores = $group->getStores();
        foreach ($stores as $store) {
            //store object
            //print_r($store->getData());

            // if english found in name or change this so it's hardcoded store id's
            if (strstr($store->getData('name'),"english")) {

                $StoreToUpdateCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()
                    ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
                    ->addAttributeToFilter('store_id', $store->getData('store_id'));

                foreach ($StoreToUpdateCollection as $product) {

                    // get the description from the base English store
                    $englishProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->setStoreId($englishStore)->loadByAttribute('sku', $product->getData('sku'));
                    $newValue = $englishProduct->getData($attribute);

                    // update the attributes for the current store for the product ID
                    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_action')->updateAttributes(
                        array($product->getData('id')),
                        array($attribute => $newValue),
                        $store->getData('store_id')
                    );
                }


            }


        }
    }
}

I have not tested the updating part, would suggest trying this on a dev version.

Multistore Pricing – Set Different Prices for Different Stores or Websites

You can set price per website basis.

you need to go to System->Configuration->Catalog.

Then in the tab "Price", set Catalog Price Scope to "Website" instead of global.

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CE 1.7.0.2 – How to Update Product Attributes for Multiple Store Views at Once

Multistore Pricing – Set Different Prices for Different Stores or Websites

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