How to display relevant metafields for each product type?

Store Design
1

Hi,

I am developing a shop with thousands of products and various product types. I am able to create product metafields and show them on the website. My issue is that the custom metafields are not appropriate for each product type. Is there a way to only show (in the Shopify admin product entry page) the relevant metafields for each product type? So if I am adding a new t-shirt it only shows metafields applicable to that product type? Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

1 Like
2

It’s all or nothing for displaying metafield definitions in the admin through pinning.

This why for data entry such as managing lots of metafield data it can be preferable to use a dedicated metafield app.

Or ETL apps such as ones for import/export of CSV or excel files that let you manipulate metafields by making workflows with spreadsheets.

1 Like
3

Hey there,

As Paul mentioned, this doesn’t appear to be possible in the Shopify Admin.

If you have a lot of product types and lots of metafields that vary by product type, one thing that might be worth considering is to maybe use a JSON metafield type for those attributes that won’t apply to all products.

So for example, you can pin the metafield definitions that apply to all products and then a single JSON metafield to store the other attributes that only apply to certain products.

1 Like