Making digital file attachments optional for specific listing categories

[cfranklin5]

In order to make selling digital products possible with the marketplace extension - you must “require file attachments” in Hivepress/Settings/Listings.

This makes it so that every single listing REQUIRES a digital product.

And although you can assign bookings to specific categories, you can’t assign only some categories to include digital products and allow other categories/listings to not require digital products.

If it were possible to assign/require digital file attachments to only some listings categories rather than requiring every listing to attach a file, you could make it so that some listings could be used to book appointments and other listings could be used to sell digital products.

[andrii]

Hi,

Please try this PHP snippet (instead of numbers 1,2,3 - specify the categories where you want to show this attribute):

add_filter( 
 'hivepress/v1/models/listing/attributes', 
 function($attributes){
  if(get_option('hp_listing_require_attachment') && isset($attributes['attachments'])){
   $attributes['attachments']['categories'] = [1,2,3];
  }
  return $attributes;
 },
 1000 
);

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[cfranklin5]

Thanks for the response.

I downloaded the code snippets plugin and added the PHP snippet as you said to do above – replaying 1,2,3 with the categories I only want to require file attachments.

Ended up crashing the site

Restored from a backup and want to avoid crashing again – if the categories are all under one parent category, should I list only that one parent category instead?

Thanks!

[cfranklin5]

just watched this and see how you say you recommend avoiding customizing the templates with php snippets, but also see that the child theme is no longer.

Customizing Templates I HivePress Developer Docs

where/how do you recommend I place the PHP snippet? Still with the code snippets plugin?

Thanks

[andrii]

Hi,

We tested the code on our side, and it works without issues. Please check in more detail if you have entered the correct categories instead of numbers.
Also, please use the Code Snippets plugin to add and manage custom PHP code snippets.

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