Hello!
1. I corrected some of your WC Vendors pages, as the pages were set as children of the Pro dashboard, but they should remain children of the WC Vendors FREE dashboard page which you did not have set. I corrected that and set a WC Vendors FREE dashboard page for you. You will still direct your vendors to the WC Vendors Pro dashboard page /vendor_dashboard/

2. The Pro vendor dashboard cannot be a child of the /my-account/. That messes up the links to the settings, products, orders, etc. It is a parent page only.

3. You will likely want to work in a link in the menu or elsewhere, or a button… to the Vendor Dashboard, as there currently is not an easy way to reach the vendor dashboard for your vendors. Only the text link that is in the /my-account/ page greeting.

4. The reason why the assigned listings were not showing up on the vendor store pages is because they were auctions, and your auctions settings were such that auctions would ONLY show on the auctions page. I have changed this so that you can see the auctions on the vendor store pages; however, if you wish to adjust this then you just need to go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Auctions and tick the box that says, “Do Not Show Auctions on Shop Page”. This prevents the auctions from showing on the archive-product page, which is the page we hook into to show the vendor store page.

5. Just making sure that you WANT your commissions set to 0. If so, no worries. But I just wanted to point that out in case you were not aware that you currently have it configured so that your vendors receive no commissions from a sale.

Let me know if you have any other questions.
Feel free to delete my vendor account (AnnaWCVendors)and my test listings.. I was only testing the store pages and to make sure I could both list and assign a product.

Styling of the dashboard: This creates a nearly identical style to your main menu. Put this in your child theme style.css:

.wcv-navigation ul.menu.black {
    background: #005077;
}
.wcv-navigation ul.menu.black li a {
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-weight: 700;
    font-size: 13px;
}
.wcv-navigation ul.menu.horizontal li a {
    padding: .75em 1.1em;
    border: none;
}
.wcv-navigation ul.menu.black li.active, .wcv-navigation ul.menu.horizontal > li:first-child a:hover , .wcv-navigation ul.menu.horizontal li a:hover {
    background: #004161;
}

4. I do not know how to do a per listing fee, no. There may also be a way you can block access to the Auction category (until a fee is paid) using a membership plugin or a Groups + WooCommerce Groups combination- but , again, you’d have to do some research and there would likely be some coding required, but this is feasible, and likely a bit more streamlined than the per listing option.
Do some searching here, too, because I know in the past some users have looked into a per listing option or credits option. I cannot recall if they were able to implement this with some custom work or not.

Joel,
Ahh I am looking for how to change the “ADD PRODUCT” link/button on the Products Tab. I thought that the code for the “quick links” would have changed that, but I will see where the different code may be for the product tab content specifically.

As for the dashboard links being changeable, this code can be modified to the link label you prefer (‘Mah Products’ ,etc.), and remove the ones that you do not wish to change. child theme functions.php. :
https://gist.github.com/fervous/29670e4f5a68ef5cc9e099b42fa9a349

Joel,
I’d like to help- but this is moving quite far away from some of the core workings of WC Vendors. I am not sure without further investigation into these needs and the gravity forms how these could be used to obtain the custom needs from the fields and also work in tandem or as expected with WC Vendors.

If your need is to collect additional information form the vendors, there are likely ways this can be custom coded without using the separate system that would be necessary with gravity forms (don’t get me wrong- gravity forms is awesome…).

I will look into this a bit and see if this is a project that I could reasonably take on, or if it would be best to refer you to someone who would be better versed in working with gravity forms. I am not all that experienced with working with gravity forms.
If you are in a time crunch, you may wish to go ahead and see if you can get a quote and some help from one of the devs at codeable.io. They are great for working with WooCommerce custom development, and your site has some very specific needs: https://codeable.io

I can see in the class-wcv-simple-auctions.php is public function auctions_form( $post_id ) but there isn’t a filter to add onto that..

am i on the right track?
A

Hello Allan,
I’ll need to dig into the Simple Auctions Plugin…

Perhaps you could you hide it with a filter in the functions.php like this? Or are you looking for something different?

add_filter('wcv_simple_auctions_proxy_bidding', 'wcv_simple_auctions_proxy_bidding_hidden');
  function wcv_simple_auctions_proxy_bidding_hidden( $args ){
    return array();
}

If not, in the morning I will certainly look into this and try to get you a better answer to your question, as well as your other questions above if you are still working with those.

Thanks Anna & Jamie.
So I’ve implemented the following function and filter..

// ——————————————————————————
function custom_wcv_proxy_bidding( $args ) {
$args[‘wrapper_start’] = ‘<div class=”all-100″ style=”display:none;”>’;
return $args ;
// return array();
}
add_filter(‘wcv_simple_auctions_proxy_bidding’, ‘custom_wcv_proxy_bidding’ );
// ——————————————————————————

using either the “return $args”, and “return array();” both have problems. From what I can tell the checkbox form item does not process the wrapper_start and wrapper_end variables so I can’t hide the checkbox using that CSS method, and when it comes to returning an empty array it just ends up displaying a blank text entry with no title etc. So either way it displays something.. Any ideas?

On a separate note,
I’m also having a problem uploading images in the gallery & featured image media upload. Since many of the horses being auctioned have a lot of veterinary documentation, we are utilizing a number of upload fields – which all came back with the same error. After uploading the image, WP will come back with an error that I don’t have the correct permissions to do upload. I’ve reverted back to the original template of the ‘product-edit.php’ template, as well as removed all the filter functions in the functions.php file and it still has the same problem. I know this will be a hard one to case out, but do you have any tips on how I can test this a little more to find the issue?

(and I just want to say thank your for your prompt response!)
Cheers, Allan

FILE UPLOADS
Tried resetting the permissions, no luck
Is it possible that my testing it on a development server might be causing wc-vendor-pro to fail? Obviously the account that Joel would have registered it to is not connected to the dev server and I am getting a warning message on the plugin page.

PROXY BIDDING
Any tips to help hide this check box form element would be greatly appreciated!

SAVING NEW META FIELDS and OTHER VALUES
I’m also having troubles saving the price/increment/reserve/buyitnow values sometimes, and then other times the new meta values I’ve created. I’ve referenced this page to create the function to save the new values but it seems to work intermittently. The most recent iteration saves the meta values, but not the bidding details (price/increment/reserve/buyitnow). Have I tapped into the save function incorrectly?

add_action(‘save_post’, ‘tbred_save_my_custom_fields_admin’, 10, 3);
function tbred_save_my_custom_fields_admin( $product_id, $post, $update ) {
// do some testing to make sure its a valid submission
if (defined(‘DOING_AUTOSAVE’) && DOING_AUTOSAVE) return;
if ( $post->post_type != ‘product’ ) return;

// ________________________________________________________________________________
$wcv_custom_horse_locate_country_NEW = sanitize_text_field( $_POST[‘wcv_custom_horse_locate_country’] );
$wcv_custom_horse_locate_country_OLD = get_post_meta($product_id, ‘wcv_custom_horse_locate_country’, true);

if ($wcv_custom_horse_locate_country_NEW != $wcv_custom_horse_locate_country_OLD)
update_post_meta($product_id, ‘wcv_custom_horse_locate_country’, $wcv_custom_horse_locate_country_NEW);

// there are about 50 values altogether and i won’t bother
// repeating here for brevity’s sake
}

Sincere thanks, Allan

Having the same trouble with the auction start & end date as well in regards to the SAVING NEW META FIELDS and OTHER VALUES… A

Anna, really – thanks for your help, I totally understand how the amount of support is limited.

Seems the previous template that Joel was using had some missing data of some kind and I also noticed that the original plugin files had been changed. I basically rebuilt the product-edit.php template using the file from github and it seems to be working now.

Everything is moving along swimmingly now!

Another question I hope you may be able to answer for me…
MEDIA UPLOADS Joel requires PDF documentation to be uploaded by the vendors. In some cases there may be more than one file that a vendor could possibly upload. With the built in media uploader it seems that only single files can be attached using the native file uploader function. I see this on line 166 of wcvendors-pro-admin.js. And from what I gather, uploads can only be images – is that correct or am I missing something? If I am correct, I guess I’ll have to build my own multiple PDF uploader..

Appreciate your time and help! Allan