Different course descriptions in Moodle and my Shop

when I made changes to my Moodle "Edit Course Setting" WYSIWYG Editor and saved, I find that if I have a different description in my shop (Hikashop) Product WYSIWYG Editor for the product description in the shop it is changed to the description within the Moodle editor. If I make a change to the shop product discription it does not change the Moodle course setting description.

Is there a way to maintain the description in my shop product when changing the Moodle Course Setting discription? i.e. can Moodle and shop descriptions be independant. Would also, be nice for the Moodle course setting "Full Name"

Using Moodle ver 1.9, Joomla ver 1.5.25

For courses displayed in your commerce extension the syncronisation is one way, ie from Moodle to the shop, as Moodle is the source of the information.

There are two ways to get the description in the shop to be different.

The first is to syncronise the course information once and then not again so that no updates occur. This option is a little risky as you may forget and syncronise replacing any changes in hikashop.

The second way is to syncronise to hikashop to which every product category you choose, say category ABC. But do not publish that category of products. Instead, copy the product and paste it into another category, say XYZ, and make appropriate product description changes. Next time you synrconise the original product will be updated but not the copied one in the new category (XYZ).

Thank you for responding
response #1: that is what I am doing
response #2: I think that may cause prob with Moodle knowing that a course has been paid. Appears the Shop-Joomdle-Moodle link is maintained by the ID assigned, which makes the changes I described and would still have to be maintained in what you describe.

I am thinking, If I could locate the PHP file and statement which directs the insertion (synchronization) of the Moodle info from the "edit course setting" and edit-out, would work for my situation.

The process I follow is:
- Always make mods on Moodle course content
- Go to Joomdle->Shop and "Reload courses from Moodle"

both when I save changes within a Moodle course settings editor and what you describe overwrite any editor text in Hikashop that I have placed, with the editor text within Moodle course setting screen. I would like to keep Hikashop Product text I created which is different from the Moodle course setting discription.

Then, don't sync
You can modify each own separately, and they will be different, as long as you don't sync again.