Add Dynamic Content Option to Plain Text Block

[AIW12345]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for reading, hoping you can assist. In short, I am trying to add dynamic content option to a specific field.

We have added a Section to our page which is a Scrolling Promotion. The section has an option for two Blocks: add an Image or Announcement (Text). The Image Block has the option to be dynamic content linked to a metafield, but the Text AnnouncementBlock does not have this option.

We don't want to use images and the text announcement needs to be unique/dynamic, as we host a number of different brands on the store. Can someone please help me alter the Text Announcement field to allow the option of dynamic content?

I would be so grateful, thank you!

[PaulNewton]

Hi @AIW12345  Afaik, currently static sections in theme.liquid wont work dynamic sources.

You'd have to add the announcement bar as a dynamic section to EVERY resource template and I believe still need to add a resource type setting to that section for metafields of that resource type to be inferred into a dynamic source. I.e. a product picker to show a product metafield

https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/architecture/settings/dynamic-sources 

Use custom-liquid settings instead

Alternatively convert the text setting to a custom liquid setting and put in liquid code there to refer to each pages data, metafield using logic.

For example in dawns announcement-bar.liquid change the text blocks type to liquid

https://github.com/Shopify/dawn/blob/main/sections/announcement-bar.liquid#L296 

https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/architecture/settings/input-settings#liquid 

Then use text with liquid : This {{ page.metafield.announcements.brand_name.value }} special is {{  page.metafield.announcements.brand_offering.value }} 

Or some such contrivance.

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[Jahid-KlinKode]

Hi @AIW12345, learn how to add dynamic content options in plain text blocks in Shopify by watching this insightful video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGVtvlJT8Y4.