Hello, My store has been given access to metaobjects, and so I’ve started using it and setup a few metaobjects that I want to use in the metafields for products and variants. But I don’t quite get how I can access the values of the meta object via the metafields? I thought maybe something like thi…

Hi Rdaniel Try to access all data with {{ product.metafields.namespace.values }} and then iterate through that {% for metaobject in product.metafields.namespace.values %} {{ metaobject.field }} {{ metaobject.field.value }} {% endfor %} Maybe it is not clear with those abstract names so here is a …

Hey Rdaniel, what datatyp of metafield are you using? Whats the output when you print {{ product.metafields.namespace.key }}? Mabey your metafield value is a string? You can create an array with | split like so: {% assign array = "value1,value2,value3" | split: "," %} {% for value in array %} {…

Is there no one that can answer this? It would be poor to add such a nice way of storing information without the possibility to access the information in the frontend…?

They are a new feature, so everyone’s learning curve is high. Thoroughly review the docs if you not simply using dynamic sources in theme settings. Merchants start here https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/custom-data/metaobjects Devs https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/custom-data/metaobjects https:/…

Thanks, I’ve read this documentation. But I can’t see how it gives information on how to access values from metaobjects that are defined in metafields in example of a product. Might be something I’ve overlooked though…

Using @LazaEAG example worked for a metaobject. But I wanted to use the metaobject as a database to store all the colour swatches for different products and select which ones I wanted to show on which product. The code above output EVERY colour swatch in the metaobject. So I made a metafield using t…

{% assign myfields = product.metafields.custom.namespace.value %} {% for myfield in myfields %} {{ myfield.name.value }} {% endfor…

Hi @Phil_Houghton First, thank you for sharing examples. And you are right, my example was some global case, I used it for one section with icons and as part of another object that has the same icons. Like you said for the product is slightly different.

Thank YOU for pointing me in the right direction. Was frustrated by the lack of documentation and having no luck up until then executing what I needed to do :slightly_smiling_face:

@Phil_Houghton Thank you for this. I didn’t have to iterate so I modified your code to make it work for me. Here is my code for anyone reading this in the future: {% assign foo = product.metafields.custom.backing.value %} {{foo.backing_title.value }} Notes: *This code works in Cu…

How can I access metaobject values in product metafields?

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rdaniel February 9, 2023, 1:07pm 3

As described, I’m using metaobjects.

When printing {{ product.metafields.namespace.key }} I get the gid reference url.

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How can I access metaobject values in product metafields?

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