Use availability of a referenced product in metaobject page template?

[bpaulette]

I'm pretty new to all of this, apologies if this is a dumb question.  

Let's say I've got a metaobject definition that includes a field of the "product" type, called "related_product".  On each entry, I select the related product.  On the page template for that metaobject, I want to display a button only if that referenced product is available.

In a custom liquid element, I'm finding that

{{ metaobject.related_product }}

kicks out the gid of the related product I selected on that entry.  Great, so it's seeing that product

But I was hoping to do something like 

{% if metaobject.related_product.available is "true" %}

Display button

{% endif %}

But can't seem to get anything like that to work.  Any way to make something like that work?

[Shadab_dev]

Why not use metafields for this? Just asking.

Not sure but May be using metafields you can get more than gid so other info of the product.

[tim · Accepted solution]

You need to use .value to get actual product object from the metafield reference:

https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/objects/metafield 

{% if metaobject.related_product.value.available %}

Display button

{% endif %}

is "true" is not a thing in Liquid.

[bpaulette]

AHHHhhhh, thanks so much.  I had already tried using .value but I had put it after .available

[tim]

Basically, .value makes an object out of reference. 

So you use it on the metafield reference and then can use object properties.