Bump - if anyone has any ideas on this, it would be much appreciated!
Topic summary
Issue: A Shopify theme developer is trying to access and display field values from metaobject references within another metaobject. Specifically, they have a ‘support’ metaobject with a ‘categories’ field that contains a list of metaobject references (GIDs).
Problem Details:
- The categories field returns only GIDs like
["gid://shopify/Metaobject/99266363722"] - Initial attempts to iterate and retrieve the referenced metaobject data (e.g., category names) failed
- A suggested solution using
shop.metaobjects.categories[category_id]didn’t work, returning blank values
Resolution: The original poster eventually solved the issue independently. The solution requires using the map filter with the specific field key name to extract values from metaobject references:
{% assign categoryNames = selectedCategories.categories.value | map: 'name' %}
{% for categoryName in categoryNames %}
{{ categoryName }}
{% endfor %}
This approach successfully retrieves field values (like ‘name’) from the referenced metaobjects instead of just displaying GIDs.