JTL Connector overwrites your free text fields with null values on every sync?

You have Shopware and JTL in use and have created a free text field in Shopware, which you want to configure independently of JTL? Then it may happen that this attribute is overwritten by JTL with every sync of the article and has the value zero.

This setting makes sense on the one hand, so that data can only be changed and edited in JTL and to have a consistent database. On the other hand, it leads to problems when certain fields are to be set directly in Shopware, which are not known to JTL. We have a solution for this - do you need further help with Shopware? The EXWE team is happy to help you - just contact us by mail or phone.

OUR SOLUTION

To fix the whole thing or to change the behavior, you have to look in the config.json of the JTL Connector Plugin. You can find it under

engine/Shopware/Plugins/Community/Frontend/jtlconnector/
config/config.json.

There is a setting "null_undefined_attributes". You have to set this to false under product, push to prevent overwriting your attributes.

The entry could then look like this:

"product": { "push": { "null_undefined_attributes": false, "article_detail_preselection": false } },

This article was written by our software developer Thomas Walter.

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