Do Metafield Booleans not work? Or is it just me?

[Forrest_Maready]

For some reason, I can't get any values out of a boolean metafield.

Here's the metafield as it exists (returned from the API):

 "metafield": {
   "owner_id": 55631235341,
   "namespace": "my_store",
   "key": "campaign_ended",
   "value": true,
   "id": 19250369592161,
   "description": null,
   "created_at": "2022-01-18T12:11:38-05:00",
   "updated_at": "2022-01-18T12:30:00-05:00",
   "owner_resource": "shop",
   "type": "boolean",
   "admin_graphql_api_id": "gid://shopify/Metafield/19250593867161"
}

Here are two ways I'm trying to use it. One, just to see the output, and another to check true/false as to whether to show something or not.

<h2>{{ shop.metafields.my_store.campaign_ended }}</h2>
   {% if shop.metafields.my_store.campaign_ended %}
     <div class="rich-text__blocks">
       <h1 class="pledged-total">Finished.</h1>
     </div>
   {% endif %}

In the <if> check, the div and text never show, even though I know the value is true.

I've also tried:

{% if shop.metafields.my_store.campaign_ended == true %}

If it's any help, in the above example, the <h2> tag outputs nothing. Perhaps I need a filter? I can't figure that one out either.

Any ideas how to use a boolean metafield within an <% if %> statement?

Many thanks

[iDoThemes]

Try string comparison instead

== "true"

Or try outputting the metafield as an object to make sure you have the correct format:

console.log({{shop.metafields.my_store.campaign_ended | json }})
console.log({{shop.metafields.my_store | json }})

[Forrest_Maready]

That json trick helped me figure out the problem, thank you very much. The problem was I was updating the value in the wrong store via Postman variables being set incorrectly. That's a stupid problem.

Thank you for the kick!

[KeshavSri]

Hi @Forrest_Maready ,

would you mind to share, how we can test boolean metafields on postman?

I am also facing the issue for boolean metafields.

Thanks in advance 

[Brandon-Flexi]

Just completed some testing with boolean metafields! This is a collections metafield example, but I found if you use ".value" after your metafield, you can create an if statement with true or false! 

For example:

{% if collection.metafields.custom.subscriber_only.value == true %}
This is true
{% else %}
This is false!
{% endif %}

Hope this helps!