Multiple users, same address book

Resolved ididthat
(@ididthat)

6 days, 18 hours ago

We have a use case where multiple users enter orders on a private website. They all share the same address book. In previous versions, we simply edited $user_id = 8 and hard coded that in the plugin. All the users shared and edited the same address book.

With the recent changes in version 3+ we were faced with the same issue. Seemed simple enough just to modify – “function get_current_customer” to return $user_id = 8. But this doesn’t work, It just runs in a loop until it finally times out.

Any suggestions on how we can get all the users on a single site to use the same address book?

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Plugin Author Matt Harrison
(@matt-h)

6 days, 8 hours ago
Hi,

I’m not sure what you changed the function to, but my guess is because it needs to return a customer object and not an id it was not working.

That said, we have a filter in place so you can do this by adding the code to either your theme or through a custom plugin. That way you don’t need to be modifying the plugin every time we release a new version update.

You can add this filter to override it:
```
add_filter(
	'wc_address_book_current_user_id',
	function ( $user_id ) {
		return 8;
	}
);
```
Thread Starter ididthat
(@ididthat)

6 days ago

Thank you. That worked as soon as I used a different user_id. (Not 8 that we had been using for a few years)

I realized the number of addresses for this user has gotten so large they won’t load.
For this user:
wc_address_book_shipping = 451 KB
wc_address_book_billing = 286 KB
wc_address_book = 219 KB
That seems to choke the page load.

Can I suggest a feature for a future version to be able to trim the address book by date or keep the XX most recent addresses?

Plugin Author Matt Harrison
(@matt-h)

5 days, 10 hours ago

Interesting. A huge address book could cause issues. I could see us adding a sort of pagination feature to it which would probably solve the page load issue you are having.

Thread Starter ididthat
(@ididthat)

4 days, 23 hours ago

If it helps. The users primarily rely on auto-complete with the large list. They don’t manually select a name, they just start typing. I would imagine most users with very large lists would be doing the same.
thanks
-=theron

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