Hello, as the subject suggests, I am looking to set visibility rules ( just like products ) based on a certin attribut.

I know there must be some code involved, perhaps you could help me with that, if possible

Hey Stefan!

Thanks for the reply.

I will try to explain my situatuion:

I have around 250 products, which are divided to 2 series  (you can look at it as a BRAND, though they are from the same brand) the series are END USER and PROFESSIONAL

and the products also share categories, for example:

Category - DETERGENTS

and then I have product 1 and product 2 which are both from the same brand - X 

but product 1 is from serie END USER and product 2 is from serie PROFESSIONAL.

Today, since there is not visibility control based on attribute, I need to create 2 categories for those 2 prdocuts in order to control the visibility, or to set the visibility of each product individualy, which would have been applicable if I didnt have 200+ products, so category control is all I am left with, which leaves me to create 2 categories - DETERGENT END USER and DETERGENT PROFESSIONAL you can see how inefficient that is.

If I could control the visibility based on the attribute "SERIE" where I would only have 2 terms that would make our life much more easier.

I read the code you have sent, from what I understand, it removs the visibility control based on category and replaces it with taxonomy, am I correct? what will happen if a product does not have this attribute? will it be shown to all? or will it be hidden from all? or perhaps the individual visibility setting that we will set for a product that does not contain the attribute, will have a higher priority?

Thanks

Hey Stefan, The code does not function. 

It does remove the visibility control from the category, but it does not add it to the attribute.

do you want access to the site to check it?

Hi Stefan, this is not quite what I needed since it still make me edit each product individually.

with what you suggest I would also need to create double categories so for example

END USER -> DETERGENTS

PROFESSIONAL -> DETERGENTS 

Because DETERGENTS can't be both a child of END USER and PROFESSIONAL, right?

in any case, I have solved the issue with categories eventually and controlling the visibility in bulk edit with a snippet

for anyone who needs this

//code to bulk edit product visibiity based on the groups you have created

<?php
/**
* B2BKing Bulk Visibility Changer Snippet
* * Add this code to your theme's functions.php file or as a simple plugin.
* This will add a bulk edit action to the WooCommerce products list.
*/

// Don't execute directly
if (!defined('ABSPATH')) {
exit;
}

/**
* Add bulk action to WooCommerce products list
*/
add_filter('bulk_actions-edit-product', 'add_b2bking_bulk_actions');
function add_b2bking_bulk_actions($bulk_actions) {
// Get all B2BKing groups
$b2bking_groups = get_b2bking_groups();
// Add bulk visibility options
$bulk_actions['b2bking_visibility_all'] = 'B2BKing: Set visibility to ALL';
$bulk_actions['b2bking_visibility_b2b'] = 'B2BKing: Set visibility to B2B only';
$bulk_actions['b2bking_visibility_b2c'] = 'B2BKing: Set visibility to B2C only';
$bulk_actions['b2bking_visibility_hidden'] = 'B2BKing: Set visibility to HIDDEN';
// Add visibility options for each B2BKing group
if (!empty($b2bking_groups)) {
foreach ($b2bking_groups as $group_id => $group_name) {
$bulk_actions['b2bking_visibility_group_' . $group_id] = sprintf('B2BKing: Visible only to "%s" group', $group_name);
}
}
return $bulk_actions;
}

/**
* Handle the bulk action
*/
add_action('handle_bulk_actions-edit-product', 'handle_b2bking_bulk_actions', 10, 3);
function handle_b2bking_bulk_actions($redirect_to, $action, $post_ids) {
if (strpos($action, 'b2bking_visibility_') !== 0) {
return $redirect_to; // Not our action
}
$processed = 0;
// Process all selected products
foreach ($post_ids as $post_id) {
if (strpos($action, 'b2bking_visibility_group_') === 0) {
// Extract group ID from action
$group_id = str_replace('b2bking_visibility_group_', '', $action);
// Set visibility to specific group
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_group_' . $group_id, '1');
// Reset other visibility options
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_visibility', 'restricted');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_all_users', '0');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_b2c_users', '0');
// Reset visibility for other groups
$all_groups = get_b2bking_groups();
foreach ($all_groups as $other_group_id => $group_name) {
if ($other_group_id != $group_id) {
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_group_' . $other_group_id, '0');
}
}
} else {
// Handle standard visibility options
$visibility = str_replace('b2bking_visibility_', '', $action);
switch ($visibility) {
case 'all':
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_visibility', '');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_all_users', '1');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_b2c_users', '1');
reset_group_visibility($post_id);
break;
case 'b2b':
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_visibility', 'b2b');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_all_users', '0');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_b2c_users', '0');
reset_group_visibility($post_id, '1'); // Make visible to all B2B groups
break;
case 'b2c':
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_visibility', 'b2c');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_all_users', '0');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_b2c_users', '1');
reset_group_visibility($post_id, '0'); // Hide from all B2B groups
break;
case 'hidden':
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_visibility', 'hidden');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_all_users', '0');
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_b2c_users', '0');
reset_group_visibility($post_id, '0'); // Hide from all B2B groups
break;
}
}
$processed++;
}
// Add query args for admin notice
$redirect_to = add_query_arg(array(
'b2bking_visibility_changed' => '1',
'changed' => $processed,
), $redirect_to);
return $redirect_to;
}

/**
* Display admin notice after bulk action
*/
add_action('admin_notices', 'b2bking_visibility_admin_notice');
function b2bking_visibility_admin_notice() {
if (!empty($_GET['b2bking_visibility_changed'])) {
$count = intval($_GET['changed']);
printf(
'<div class="updated notice is-dismissible"><p>' . _n(
'Updated B2BKing visibility for %s product.',
'Updated B2BKing visibility for %s products.',
$count,
'woocommerce'
) . '</p></div>',
$count
);
}
}

/**
* Helper function to get all B2BKing groups
*/
function get_b2bking_groups() {
$groups = array();
// Get all B2BKing groups from custom post type
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'b2bking_group',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'numberposts' => -1
);
$group_posts = get_posts($args);
foreach ($group_posts as $group) {
$groups[$group->ID] = $group->post_title;
}
return $groups;
}

/**
* Helper function to reset group visibility
*/
function reset_group_visibility($post_id, $value = '0') {
$groups = get_b2bking_groups();
foreach ($groups as $group_id => $group_name) {
update_post_meta($post_id, 'b2bking_group_' . $group_id, $value);
}
}