How can I create a universal Metaobject for all product pages?

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I have been doing a lot with Metafields and Metaobjects lately, they’re great. Now, I want to create a Metaobject with some ‘generic information’ like a Title and Description and use these properties to fill a certain Tab on my product pages.

(Keep in mind that I have multiple product-page templates for different types of products.)

This way I would have the actual text and translations in one spot. I don’t have to duplicate any text in multiple templates, multiple places that have to be translated and I also don’t have to worry about text running out of sync between the different templates.

Now, I thought this should have been possible with Metafields / Metaobjects using some kind of ‘Shop’-Metafield that would hold a Metaobject. So a Metaobject accessibel from everywhere. This, however, does not seem to exist.

The alternative would be to create Metaobject and create a ‘Product’-Metafield that would hold that Metaobject but then I would have to assign the Metaobject to every single product in my store. Doable, yes. Good solution, not really.

So, are there any other options for me?

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No. You do not need to assign the metaobject to a product, or any. It is a global variable. It is key value pair, an object. You call them by its key.

I usually try to use console.log and see what values are available for me.

You can refer to the code below to call the array of values in your theme

{% assign samples = shop.metaobjects['sample'].values %}

{% for sample in samples %}
{% assign sample_name = sample.name %}
{% assign sample_link = sample.link %}
{% endfor %}
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Thanks. That’s something to consider.

I forgot to mention that the place where I want to use the title and description is a section that was included with the theme.

One of those fields in the customizer where you can select a dynamic source.

I’ll probably have to edit the section so it accepts those global metaobjects as input.

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Yes, you have to make your hands dirty on this. Since, metaobject are not being called using dynamic source