Use category description in XML

UP please

Hy Omar,
Thank you for your comeback.
The merchant makes mandatory the name of the category and an attached ID number.
The category ID number is defined and mandatory.
The category name is defined and required.
I had thought of using the category description to assign it this ID number.
Do you have a solution ?
Thank you so much.

Hi Omar,

Sorry I’m French, my English is not perfect to explain well.
Yes, I can get the category name and id.
But the id must have a defined value and not generated by Woocommerce.
So I was thinking of using the category description instead.
The name of the category and the number are defined, imposed and mandatory by the sales platform which will retrieve the XML feed.
I need to send for example (category name and number):
– Agricultural tipper = 543
– Grape Bucket = 878
– Farm Tractor = 510

Thank you so much.

Hi Omar,

Can you help me?
The solution is near.
I manage to retrieve the category description by forcing the ID in the shortcode.
With this function :
function productxml_func( $atts ) {
$a = shortcode_atts( array(‘id’ => ”, ), $atts );
$term = get_term_by(‘id’, $a[‘id’], ‘product_cat’);
return $term->description;
}
add_shortcode( ‘cat_description’, ‘productxml_func’ );
In XML feed :
[cat_description id=”254″]
It works but must be fixed.
You should be able to do
[cat_description id=”[alg_product_categories_ids]”]

Thanks very much

Hi Omar,
I get the category description fine with the new version, thanks you vry much.
Cordially,
Olivier