Display category description outside the catalog, Bitrix?

Question

1C-Bitrix

The crux of the matter is what. A site for wholesalers is being made. It is necessary to show store categories with descriptions and titles, but without products, to non-logged in users. Offer to register instead of goods. And for logged-in users, on the contrary, show products, but no longer show the text-description of the category (search texts).
Now I did this, I connect the catalog component through if / else for logged in. And for those who are not logged in, I just show the text in the registration request. And it turns out that for non-logged-in catalog components it seems to be not connected and I can’t display the name and description of the category ...
Maybe I’m doing something wrong, does anyone have any thoughts? I'm new to bitrix

Answer 1

So move the condition to the template, let the component be available to everyone.

Answer 2

In the bitrix:catalog component, check the box "take into account the user group" (so that the cache for authorized and not authorized is different), then in the bitrix:catalog.section.list template you set the condition for displaying the description, and in the bitrix:catalog template in the section.php file for unauthorized ones, disable the connection of the bitrix:catalog.section component.