What I’ve learned: I can assign a Shopify category (e.g., Cardstock in Cardstock & Scrapbooking Paper) to a product, and that category might have associated “industry standard” metafields. Then, when I create a new product option for the product, I can choose to “connect” one of the category metafields (e.g., shopify.paper-size) and utilize its standardized values (e.g., A1, A2, A3, …). Once created, any other product I create with that same category will/can pick up that same option and values. I think of this as a reusable option & values.
Question: Is it possible to create a reusable product option and set of values, but without associating the product to a pre-defined category (like in the above example)? I want to just define a named metafield, give it a list type for the option values, and then use that named metafield as a product option in various products which have no category assigned to them? I’ve tried several variations and haven’t found success. Maybe this isn’t possible.
Thanks for any guidance you can offer.