I’ve been testing and trying all sorts of combinations to access a generic file (a PDF) which is a metafield “file” value for a product. This is for a flow that will give you the PDF URL of the file on a new order when products in lineItems have them. I have been able to filter out the order line …

Interesting. Flow recently added the new metafield types and what you are seeing is that what the file type stores is not a URL but a GID reference. That means you need a way to lookup the URL based on the reference (which is what the liquid does). This is not yet possible.

Thanks for getting back and confirming @paul_n - I had gone round in circles enough to worry that was the final answer! Do you know if there is a plan to add this into Flows? I feel Flows is no where near powerful enough yet to truly generate awesome triggers and actions. It would be so much more t…

Most of the things you listed are already possible in Flow liquid. The context in which Flow is using liquid is different than the storefront so things like all_products wouldn’t just work in Flow. We do have plans to offering getting a list of products into Flow, but it’s addressed through a separa…

all_products wouldn’t just work in Flow. We do have plans to offering getting a list of products into Flow, but it’s addressed through a separate action called “Get product data”, which is in early access right now. Thanks for the tip - i’ll see if I can utilise that action to pull out what I can…

Where is the action “Get product data” in the Flows @paul_n - i’ve looked, but cannot find it anywhere?

Hi Paul_n. I had the same problem. I try to retrieve the URL of a file uploaded into an order. I use this code: {% for metafields_item in order.metafields %} {% for references_item in metafields_item.references %} Certificazione : {{references_item.GenericFile.url}} {% endfor %} {% endfor …

You cannot use that .url part. all you can get is the GID. This is because metafields use their own type system, and Flow is currently unaware of it.

Thanks Paul for your reply. Can you suggets me any other solution, or workaround to obtain the result? have a nice day, Fernando

I did a bit more exploration on this. I think you can actually output the URL. For example, I updated an image to a “File” type and was able to access the URL for the image with this bit of code: {% for metafields_item in product.metafields %} {{metafields_item.reference.MediaImage.image.url}} {%…

Get product metafield generic_file URL within message in Flow

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paul_n October 20, 2022, 12:22pm 7

It in a limited release right now. I would need to enable it for your shop. If you can DM me your myshopify domain, I can get that enabled for you.

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Get product metafield generic_file URL within message in Flow

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