Extending Shopify Metafields beyond 128 definitions

[MarcDirect]

Hey there folks, 

So we've been building a site making use of metafields to differentiate thing like colour, producer, region of production etc on our website. This has been going fine up until a point, and recently we learned that you can only add 128 definitions into a metafield. 

For example, we've got 140 producers for our products, and people tend to search specifically by producer. We are a at a loss as to what to do regarding getting the remaining 12 producers into the site! 

Is anyone aware of a way to increase the limit?

[NiagaraFox]

We ran into this problem, too. Shopify documentation is poor in that it does not tell you there is a limit of 128 items when you want to save values in a dropdown list of a metafield.

[TNR]

We have the same problem, we need like 180. 128 is such an arbitrary number. . . I think there is a way for an experienced dev to create a new metafield with a predefined validation option limit that is higher.

[kaznight]

Hi @MarcDirect, 

Did you find a solution for that ? We are facing the same issue..