Two fixes bundled together:
1. Shrink CATEGORY_PAGE_SIZE from 100 to 25. Each item in a category page
can trigger several sequential BC calls (location stock, price lists,
brand/category lookup) beyond the page fetch itself - at 100 items/page
this measured 150-250+ seconds on live data, exceeding PHP's execution
limit and leaving the Action Scheduler action stuck "in-progress"
forever instead of completing or failing visibly.
2. BC's Item Category table has no parent-category field - confirmed via
the actual published CategProd endpoint (Code, Description only) and
the standard itemCategories entity (id, code, displayName only). The
original ItemCategoryHierarchy AL snippet assumed a Parent Category
field that doesn't exist. Switched to the standard /itemCategories API
for the brand display name (no custom endpoint needed for that part),
and replaced the BC-side parent-category walk with a WordPress-side
manual map (wbc_category_parent_map: "CODE=Parent Name" per line) for
the WooCommerce product category grouping, since BC has nothing to
offer there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Malin
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