How to link the variant metafield I input to be display in the product storefont in dawn theme?

[MattLo]

i have created few variant metafields, eg. color, shoulder strap, monogram, however, those variant cannot be display at the product page after I input the data. Am I misunderstanding the purpose and usage of variant metafield? Can anyone help clarify my concept. thx

[NomtechSolution]

Variant metafields in Shopify allow you to add additional custom data or information to individual product variants. However, by default, these variant metafields are not displayed on the product page.

To display the variant metafields on the product page, you'll need to make some modifications to your theme code. Here's a general outline of the steps involved:

1. In your Shopify admin, go to "Online Store" -> "Themes".
2. Find the theme you are using and click on the "Actions" button, then select "Edit code".
3. In the theme editor, locate the file called "product.liquid" or "product-template.liquid". This file controls the layout and content of your product pages.
4. Open the "product.liquid" or "product-template.liquid" file.
5. Find the section where the product variant options are displayed. This is usually marked with code like {% for variant in product.variants %}.
6. Inside the variant loop, you can access the variant metafields using the variant.metafields object. For example, to display the color metafield, you can use {{ variant.metafields.color }}.
7. Modify the product template code to display the desired variant metafields. You can use HTML and Liquid syntax to structure and format the display of the metafields.

[MattLo]

Thanks for the reply, any difference if my file is name 'product.json' instaed of ' product.liquid'? 

[Niki_K]

Hi @MattLo ,

If it's still relevant, I decided to write a step-by-step guide on how to render variant metafield values on product pages dynamically–this means when a customer selects a different product variant.

The guide includes code snippets, including JavaScript that allows for dynamically updating the values.

https://ecommercepot.com/shopify-qa/variant-metafield/

Hope this helps!

[mmisek]

Hi Niki,

First, thanks for the code you provided. This was the most complete implementation I've found for this specific problem. That said, I implemented the code in your tutorial and I have a question and a bit of feedback.

Q: The script added to the global.js file broke my variant selectors on any product pages that had variants but did not have the new variant metafield block on the page. After selecting a variant the add-to-cart button was disabled. I fixed this by adding the block to all my pages, but this isn't ideal as I don't want to have to add this block to every product page template I use. Do you know how to fix this?

I had to watch a few youtube videos on adding blocks and make a few educated guesses on where to put code based on your tutorial. The only mention you made of which files you were editing were in your screenshots and there was no indication of where exactly to paste a lot of the code. Clarifying this in your tutorial would help anyone who isn't an experienced coder actually implement the changes.

Thanks again, and looking forward to your feedback!
-Morgan