How can I bulk edit and add metafields to my products on Shopify 2.0?

How can I bulk edit and add metafields to my products on Shopify 2.0?

Chris_Chan1
Tourist
16 0 2

Hello,

 

I am creating a new theme for my website, switching over to Shopify 2.0. I've learned that filters are now dictated off metafields instead of tags. I have a big website and would like to check if there is anyway that i could bulk edit and add metafields to my products, instead of going through them one by one and adding a metafield to each product. Anyone able to help me? Thanks

 

please note that i have not been utilising metafield previously, hence, all of my products do not have any metafields tagged to them previously

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KetanKumar
Shopify Partner
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@Chris_Chan1 

oh sorry current not any option Bulk Edit Metafield may in future come at this 

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ATLSHG
Tourist
10 0 1

Looks like we'll have to figure this out ourselves.

The solution described at the link below (How to bulk edit product metafields within the Shopify dashboard) added the Google Metafield Columns to the bulk edit table.  But the data input into those fields didn't carry over to the individual variants.  I did remove two unused apps today to try and speed up my load time, so that might be the issue.  Can anyone help me understand why info added to bulk edit this way wouldn't carry over to the products? 

 

https://developers.findify.io/docs/how-to-work-with-and-bulk-edit-metafields-within-shopify

I'm using these namespaces and keys.

Copy Namespace and Key (grayed out):
mm-google-shopping.age_group
mm-google-shopping.condition
mm-google-shopping.gender
mm-google-shopping.mpn

Ablestar_Daniel
Shopify Partner
136 23 49

Hi Chris,

 

I'm a developer for the Ablestar Bulk Product Editor and this looks like something you can do with our app on the free plan.

 

Once you've installed the app you can search for a set of products and then update the metafields in bulk:

 

Choosing which product metafield to bulk editChoosing which product metafield to bulk edit

 

I've also created a walkthrough video showing the process.

 

If you only have a small amount of tags you could go through, filter for products with a tag, and then bulk update the metafields with their new value.

 

If you have a lot of different tags you could also use the app to:

  • Export the products' handles and tags to a spreadsheet
  • Add a new column to that spreadsheet with the value for the metafield
  • Upload the new spreadsheet to the app to update the metafields

Hopefully this helps out, if you have any follow up questions just let me know.

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Manage product data, spreadsheets, Google Shopping data, and metafields with Ablestar Bulk Product Editor. Use previews, undos, and automations to be confident your product data is correct.
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jake_mitchell
Shopify Partner
120 2 66

This sounds promising. We also need to do a lot of editing of metafields. I'd like to test this out on my dev store. do you know if the app is free on dev stores. I don't really want to pay for acceptance testing, but if successful would move it over to live to do our full collection. 

 

Thanks 

jake_mitchell
Shopify Partner
120 2 66

Hi, 

Shopify have recently released the ability to select metafields to edit with the product bulk editor. 

It is on limited release currently - https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/metafields/bulk-edit-product-metafields 

 

Might be worth checking if you can do that. Go into bulk edit and if you have access you will see your metafields in the 'columns'. 

Note: there is a fairly annoying fault with it though. 

 

It is possible to spend a very long time editing only to then get this error when you hit save 

jake_mitchell_0-1669308075243.png

 

The error message doesn't tell you where the fault it so there is literally no way of correcting it. As I've just found out. 

 

So...it seems like functionality is coming without using an app, but for now an app may be best until Shopify can make it usable. 

If anyone from Shopify reads this - take this as feedback. 

jake_mitchell
Shopify Partner
120 2 66

@Chris_Chan1  it's also worth saying that whilst Shopify only filter with metafields as native functionality there are loads of apps that allow you to retain tag based filtering. we use 'Product Filter & Search' and that works fine for us.