Make text field on Product page hyperlink to Collection page

Store Design

Topic summary

A store owner wants to automatically convert product vendor names into clickable links that direct to corresponding collection pages. With over 150 vendors and 6,000 products, manual implementation isn’t feasible.

Proposed Solution:

  • Create a product metafield (link type) to store vendor collection URLs
  • Use code to wrap vendor text in HTML anchor tags that reference these metafield values
  • Potentially reuse existing metafields created for a designer page

Current Challenge:
The store recently hit metafield quantity limits and now uses two separate metafield lists. The solution needs to:

  • Search across both metafield lists to find the correct vendor link
  • Match vendor text values to corresponding URLs
  • Possibly add unique identifiers to distinguish vendors across lists

Status: Discussion remains open with the developer suggesting a loop-based approach to match vendor values with metafield links, but implementation details are still being worked out.

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HI.

On my product pages I have the first text box set to show the product vendor and each vendor has their own collection page. How can I make this field automatically hyperlink to the corresponding collection page? Surely this has been done but I can’t find any instruction online. I’d appreciate any guidance!!

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Please share your store url or a screenshot of the text box you are talking about.

This as of my knowledge is not a default feature and needs some code modification to that text to make it a link.

Best

Shadab

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yes coding and probably metafield created

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Yes, you can actually create a product Metafield with the name vendor or whatever you want it to be.

Select the input type to be a link and add that link via code to your vendor with html a tags.

There are other ways as well but you probably will need some coding any way you choose.

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I have over 150 vendors and over 6000 products so doing it manually is not an option

I did something similar when I created the Designer link page but I had help and am not a coder

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I wonder if I could use the same metafield created for the designer page links?

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I see. Sounds great that you have a good business.

In this case I believe you are correct and you should go with the metafield created for the designer links.

So the logic is something like this. Run a for loop of all your vendors and store the link in a variable when the metafield value is equal to vendor value of your product page. You can then modify the vendor html to be an a tag with href to that link.

Hope I am able to explain.

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I’ll definitely look into it.

I just added a second metafield for the designer page because I hit the quantity limit. I had to rewrite the code for the page to combine the two metafield lists. So now there is this new issue of getting that vendor text field to find the appropriate link from one of two metafield lists.

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May be you can add an identifier or something that is kind of unique to that vendor text so you can separate it from all the values to create a new array and then do what you are trying to do.

What do you think??