Is it possible to re-use data or use presets for Custom Content Sections?

[SvenSvensson]

Hi!
I started to learn Shopify today and trying to understand how to re-use data between products.

I understand how metadata fields works and how to use dynamic data sources.

What I don’t understand is how to do this on different “levels”. I’ll try to explain:

Let’s say I have 100 products. They are divided in 10 different categories with 10 products in each.

They all share single product template.

The template has a Custom Content section that should display information about the product category.
I can connect the Custom Content section fields to metadata fields, but then I would have to manually add the same information to each product. And if something changes I have to update all 10 product in each category.
Is it possible to achieve this somehow?

They only solution I can think of is to create a template for each category of product where I add a Custom Content section with hard coded data for that category. But the issue it that I then have to update each of those 10 template each time I want to change the product template.
Am I trying to have the cookie and eat it?

Thanks in advance!

[SvenSvensson]

I’ll reply to my own thread here. There are multiple different ways of doing what I want.

For static data shared between different products and pages you can use “Presets” to pre-fill data for a section and then give it a unique name.

For dynamic data you can use collections to add metadata for a bunch of products at once.
And then in the template use {{ products.collections.collection_name.metafields.namespace.field }} to access it.