Main issue: link the category metaobject/metafield for “colour” to the product variant “colour” so Shopify renders color swatches on product pages.
Work done: Hex color codes were uploaded via Matrixify and a new product option/variant named “color” was created and assigned across products.
Challenge: Shopify needs the category metafield/metaobject to be explicitly connected to the product option. Bulk Edit can change category and metafields at scale, but does not provide a clear automated linkage for this specific metaobject-to-option mapping.
Suggested approach: Use Shopify’s GraphQL API to programmatically configure metafield‑linked product options (reference: “Metafield-linked product options” docs). GraphQL is Shopify’s query language/API for making bulk, scripted changes.
Outcome: No automated solution was found by participants. The task was completed manually for 2,645 products.
Status: Automation remains unresolved/unclear. Further investigation into a GraphQL-based workflow may be required.
Notes: Screenshots illustrate the assigned color option and the category metaobject settings that need linkage.
Summarized with AI on December 16.
AI used: gpt-5.
Our company sells bike paints and we are planning to use the colour swatches on the product page to display to product’s colour. For this we have used Matrixify to upload all Hex colour codes and create a new product variant called 'color.
But it seems the last step is to tell Shopify for every product that the category metafields/objects for colour is in fact the variant ‘colour’ that we had uploaded, in order for it to show the colour as a swatch.
You can use Bulk Edit to edit product category and category metafields, just like editing a spreadsheet Not sure if an automatic way has been made yet.
Not sure if an automatic way has been made yet.
