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I think I found it: seems like the plugin Post Type Switcher is responsible for the Variations.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-type-switcher/
I can easily live without it – and whenever I need to switch a post type I can just activate it, switch post type and turn it off again… Thank you very much!
as I PMed already: now everything seems to be behaving as it should. I have no idea what triggered the mis-behavior in the first place – nor what made it go away… Maybe switching the WP language to English and back to German? …strange… Anyways – thank you very much!
PS: it also seems to run faster now – did you flush any caches eventually…?
oops – yes! Found it. Thank you!
yup, on the way…
Now I downgraded WooCommerce to 2.4.6 – but the issue still remains the same. :/
Version 2.4.8
Hi Robin,
thank you very much! All fine: I ‘just’ re-installed everything –– and proper permissions seem to help avoiding error messages…
kind regards,
tillI have to admit I took a look at the code – and thanks to well documented and well structured code I actually managed to add the automatic preset myself.
I know ‘hacking’ the core files is bad practice – but I really needed this feature a.s.a.p. since triggering that option six times for each new media file is just beyond my… Anyways – now it seems to be working. Hope you don’t mind.
What I did was I added one line of code to the function “ss_add_license_as_variation” which is located in the file “tools-product-variations.php”
update_post_meta($varpostid, ‘_digital’, ‘yes’ );
Now the option is set – which saves me a lot of time. Thank you very much! Greetzs, Till
Yup, seems the additional option ‘Digital’ comes from WooCommerce German Market.
Looking at the time I (and probably everybody else in my situation) would save having that preset ‘Digital=Checked’ I would actually like to submit a feature request… or rather a support request. How should I/we proceed with that? Would this be a feature you would anyways want to implement – and I would try to help you? …or should I actually submit a feature request and pay the $20 / $40 in advance?
Cheer! t
Thank you very much for your detailed reply!
Asking myself why I originally needed the option’Digital’ I re-did some research on the subject – and maybe it helps to understand what this is all about, if I try to sum up the details. I personally usually would not mind about the setting ‘Digital’ anyways, since I find the settings ‘Virtual’ and ‘Downloadable’ sufficient to describe the nature of stock images – so basically everything could be fine as it is.
But there were some changes recently in European Law – and adjustments that were then made to the WooCommerce plugin ‘German Market’. As far as I know it basically ‘only’ affects a) businesses in the EU that are b) selling digital goods to c) end users inside the EU. The new regulation says that in that case, the VAT of the consumer has to be applied to the (digital) product – not the VAT of the seller. So basically, since every EU country has a slightly different VAT, the updated ‘German Market’ plugin adds the VAT now according to the buyer’s country, of the option ‘Digital’ is set. So if I understand this hole thing correctly, the option ‘Digital’ can be set to make WC-GM apply the updated EU-VAT-laws – assuming that a) and b) and c) do apply. Huh!
Here’s a detailed text about this new EU directive at gov.uk:
“VAT: businesses supplying digital services to private consumers”And here’s an interview on that topic over at marketpress.com:
“Interview with Attorney at Law Thomas Schwenke on Changes to Consumer Legislation”So I think currently setting each license option to “Digital” is ok for now and ok for me – it just works. But it looks like this EU directive won’t go away in the near future. So in the long run it could probably be a good idea to have some kind of preset implemented, considering there are probably quite some people in the EU affected by this.
Anyways – should this actually go in the ‘feature requests’ section?
Cheers! till
PS: sorry if this happens to be all well known and boring to you – but to me it’s currently all quite new and… ‘exciting’
Hi Robin,
thak you for your reply!
I’m not sure if I understand correctly – but in WooCommerce 2.7 there is a digital checkbox at least for “Simple product”.
And while the editor is loading, I can see the checkboxes for about 2 seconds – as shown in the screenshot below:
Of course I can check “digital” on every license of every media product – but having 6 licenses makes the adding of new media files a bit complicated… or at least time consuming.
You’re suggesting I could make changes yourself – well – at least I could try… Do you have any pointer where I could add such a ‘preset’?
Thank you! t
Update: the hide/show of the checkboxes is triggered by the symbiostock option ” Simplify administrative interface to focus on media sales. (Recommended)” which basically is fine. But this makes all media by default Virtual (ok) and Downloadable (ok) but not Digital (not ok).
Is there any way where I can set Media to “digital” by default? Thanks again! t
ah – got it – it’s actually a woocommerce detail that can be triggered through a few lines of code added to functions.php as described here:
http://brianjackson.io/make-phone-number-field-required-checkout-woocommerce/
( leaving this here – maybe it helps somebody else )
I see – thank you for your reply! So *great* that I have a sandbox now 🙂
But even with images at a price of 0,- the client does not receive a download link – I just have the feeling I’m missing a checkbox or something.
I guess for now I’ll just continue configuring everything and hope that once everything is working, a friend / test user will successfully purchase an image… We’ll see… 🙂 Cheers! t
