Variants Metafields dont show in bulk edit

[mooritexxx]

Hi,

I used to edit the "Product Metafields" within the bulk editor but now I am switching over to "Variants Metafields" and the column option for Variant Metafields don't show to choose and edit. 

Has anyone solved this issue? Is there a way to edit the variant metafields in bulk? 

I also have an issue with showing the Varient Metafields as filters on my storefront. The Product Metafields show but not the Variant Metafields.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Dirk]

Hey, @mooritexxx 

You can edit your variant meta fields by going into the individual product page itself and performing the edits in there. From that page, the variant specific metafields you have setup in your metafields settings will be there:

If there is anything else I can help you with, please let me know.

[rmk-dev]

Hi Dirk, it would make absolute sense though to be able to do this in the bulk editor though. I need to change these fields for 50 products at the same time.

[Imogen]

Hi there, @rmk-dev. Thanks for taking the time to follow up on this thread! 

We appreciate your feedback here around being able to make bulk changes to variant metafield data for all of your products via the product bulk editing functionality. I've gone ahead and completed a feedback submission on your behalf to let our Developers know about your feedback, and your request for this functionality. Though I can't promise what the outcome of sharing this feedback will be, you can trust that the right folks at Shopify will see the information, and keep it in mind for future updates!

[BC716]

Hi,

Has anything further been done regarding the ability to BULK EDIT variant metafields yet?

Shopify seems to find all other kinds of irrelevant things to change and update ALL the time, but yet

the developers do not seem take into consideration the more IMPORTANT issues like this to work on.

This is a VERY time consuming and tedious task to manually open EACH product to edit and add "variant" metafields especially when you are sitting with more than 5000 different products in your store!

Some attention to this and making this functional to BULK EDIT variant metafields would be appreciated!

After all we are your PAYING customers, and maybe they should pay more attention to WHAT we need and not what they THINK we need!

[Imogen]

Hi there, @BC716. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us here regarding using the bulk editor to manage/edit variant metafields. At this time, I don't have any specific information to share with you regarding when this functionality may become available to users. 

With that being said, I'm happy to add your comment here as additional feedback to our Developers regarding the interest behind having this functionality created and made available for us. I've previously shared this thread with the developers, but I'm happy to do so again for you.

I can't promise what the specific outcome may be from me sharing this information, but you can trust it will be seen by the folks internally that need to see it. Thanks again for taking the time to follow up here!

[js0425]

Another user here, flagging that this feature (i.e., the ability to edit variant metafields via bulk-editor) would be INCREDIBLY helpful. 

This seems like a fairly simple database addition based on the fields that are already available. 

[Maz]

Hey, @js0425!

Thanks for joining this thread! 

I took the liberty of upvoting this for us and I also added your feedback here as a use case along with the others!

Thanks so much again!

[FifthEffect]

Hey all! 

Chiming in with my vote on this 🙂 Also mentioned this at editions.dev

[Henry_Bateman]

Another upvote from me. 

[furnitureb2b]

another one from me! Bulk edit for each variant metafield would be epic

[TT-Robbo41]

Another upvote from me!

[BC716]

4 Months later!!! AND STILL not even a sign that SHOPIFY developers deem this URGENT and NECESSARY!!!

We have been MANUALLY editing our products for the past 4 months and are STILL doing so!

No use you going to all the trouble of continually sharing the "thread" with the developers, and they just turn a blind eye to it!

They are quite happy and "ON TIME" every month to take our money! For what? so that they can just do what they deem necessary and "Important" but do not give a minute of thought to what their PAYING CUSTOMERS want and need!

This is pathetic to say the least! How long still till SOMEONE actually lifts their lazy butt and DOES something about this?

Can this not be escalated to the CORRECT and RELEVANT parties or MANAGEMENT for that matter?

I am "pissed off" as this MANUAL EDITING is consuming my time 24 hours, 7 days a week and I have NO time to work on ANYTHING else but this TEDIOUS editing EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY!!! of the more than 6000 products on our site, we are not even halfway yet!

WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING PLEASE!!!!

[GeoffJacksonAJP]

Totally hear you on this and it is frustratingly, a common experience of working with Shopify. There are countless oversights and illogical decisions made in the platform that you just simply do not get with alternatives on the market. An ongoing daily battle and all you get is third party paid apps shoved down your throat to resolve problems that shouldn't even be happening.

[OrchardPhones]

+1 on this feature request. At least give us the ability to update it via catalogue upload. It's a lot of SKUs

[bougli]

Also requesting this feature

[Frisi]

+1 on this feature request. I don't understand why it hasn't been implemented yet.

[Anna_O]

Chiming in with my frustrations, too. We desperately need the option of bulk editing Variant Metafields.

[kozakh]

I'm extremely frustrated this hasn't been fixed. I have literally thousands of products that we can't update in bulk at all now because of this Variant Metafield issue. The bulk editor won't allow us to update anything because it's giving us an error message saying our Variants don't match, yet there's no way to fix that in that bulk editor. Most of our products have inventory tracking turned off, so we can't temporarily turn it on to fix the Variant Metafields in the Inventory bulk editor. Shopify, you should credit my bill this month at $15 per hour for the 30 hours it's going to take one of my employees to update this one by one. This is a major design flaw.

[BC716]

Yes!!!! once again!!! just try shoving another APP down our throats, we are PAYING SHOPIFY ENOUGH EVERY MONTH in order to SORT THIS OUT!!!!

There is NOTHING "LIMITED" about my current SETUP or ALWAYS the "COMMON" response of "Try refreshing your browser or clearing your cache" THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!

There is also NOTHING wrong with "THEME" settings or "FILTERING"

Bottom line is.... "VARIANT METAFIELDS" have to be completed "MANUALLY" there is NO option to edit them as you would be able to do for "PRODUCT METAFIELDS" in a "BULK EDIT"

Clearly you have no clue what we are referring to, and try to just sweep it under the rug by offering "COMMON" solutions that is going to make NO difference!!!

NOW 5 MONTH LATER!!! and STILL NO ANSWER OR RESPONSE FROM YOUR DEVELOPERS!!!!

As per snip included here, ALL the information marked with RED ARROWS need to be "MANUALLY" completed "ONE-BY-ONE" - "PRODUCT-BY-PRODUCT" and we have and STILL are editing our products MANUALLY now going on for 5 MONTHS, daily!!!! 

[Ryan-winlabs]

Hopefully I'm understanding correctly.

Try in inventory bulk edit NOT product bulk edit.

Best,

Ryan

Principal @ winshiplabs

ryan@winshiplabs.com

[GeoffJacksonAJP]

Wow. Did.Not.Know.This 😂

Yeh, this does what everyone is complaining about. Nice one.

[BC716]

Thank You!!! 6 months later! why could "Shopify" not answer this question in the first place?

But would rather try and shove another APP down your throat!
Just wondering WHY and WHAT we are paying them for?

Much appreciated!

[GeoffJacksonAJP]

Shopify Staff on this forum and on live chat are absolutely useless and few of them even understand the platform. Not even convinced some of them are actual employees of Shopify. There are some exceptions of course but almost all of the responses in the community forum are utter useless nonsense.

[fresnodiscovery]

I do not have inventory. My products are digital and unlimited. Does this not work for me then?

[PabloGO_CL]

EDIT: The solution I tried just visualizes metafields but won't let me edit them ☠️

Hi!!! I joined the community just to answer this as I was in the very same spot as you. We manage digital inventory so it's not appliable to our business.

Let's hope Shopify fix this.

[Charlotte28]

Solves the issue!!

[Charlotte28]

Another upvote for this issue! Very necessary

[Ryan-winlabs]

See my solution above @Charlotte28 👍

[fresnodiscovery]

I just discovered something that might help some people. Since our products are digital and do not have inventory, we could not use the option shared to edit in inventory bulk edit...so I figured I am not going to be able to bulk edit. But I just opened up one of my products that has a long list of variants and discovered there is a bulk edit there. Not to edit all at once, still have to go product by product, but it still is saving me some work as I can at least bulk edit each product's variants on one screen.

[Adnobis]

Another upvote for this issue!
The Inventory bulk editor can handle some things but not everything!