How does product visibility work in Shopware 6?

Jan 25th 2022

Do you know how product visibility work? Let me explain in this blogpost.

By default, Shopware 6 has three different product visibilities. Go to product Visibility & structure > Set visibility for selected Sales Channels:

Admin product visibilities

Then you will see the visibility options:

Admin product visibilities

Type	Explanation
Visible	Product will be displayed in category navigation Product will be displayed in search
Hide in Listings	Product will *NOT* be displayed in category navigation Product will be displayed in search
Hide in Listings and search	Product will *NOT* be displayed anywhere. Neither on category or search

Show me the code

Please, take a look in the database table product_visibility. You will see on the visibility column the following values: 10, 20 or 30. Probably mostly 30. Why? They represent the above visibilities.

use Shopware\Core\Content\Product\Aggregate\ProductVisibility;

ProductVisibilityDefinition::VISIBILITY_LINK;   //  10 - Hide in Listings and search
ProductVisibilityDefinition::VISIBILITY_SEARCH; //  20 - Hide in Listings
ProductVisibilityDefinition::VISIBILITY_ALL;    //  30 - Visible

Tip to keep consistency

In order to keep consistency all over the code, please use the existing visibility constants. Please don't use hard coded numbers like 10, 20 or 30. Example:

// BAD
'visibilities' => [[
	'salesChannelId' => $this->salesChannel->getSalesChannel()->getId(),
	'visibility'     => 30,
]],


// GOOD
'visibilities' => [[
	'salesChannelId' => $this->salesChannel->getSalesChannel()->getId(),
	'visibility'     => ProductVisibilityDefinition::VISIBILITY_ALL,
]],

Thank you so much! Hope you enjoyed!