Maximum definitions of 50 set for use as a filter....Really?

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Topic summary

A developer is migrating a large store (~10,000 products) from Magento to Shopify and encountering a significant limitation with product filtering. The original Magento store used approximately 200 product attributes for filtering purposes.

The Problem:

  • Attributes were migrated as unstructured metafields and added to product metafield definitions
  • Shopify’s Search & Discovery app enforces a hard limit of 50 metafield definitions that can be enabled as filters
  • Approximately 145 additional attributes still need to be configured as filters

Current Status:
The user is seeking workarounds or alternative solutions to enable filtering for all ~200 attributes, preferably without using third-party apps. A screenshot shows the error message blocking further filter configuration. The discussion remains open with no solutions provided yet.

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Hi all,

I’ve been migrating a large store from Magento to Shopify. The store has approximately 10k products and in Magento there are about 200ish attributes. These are used for product filtering.

These have been migrated to Shopify as unstructured Metafields currently. I have then been adding them to product metafield definitions to allow them to then be set as being enabled for filtering with the Shopify Search & Discovery app. This was going great until I just ran into this message:

“Maximum definitions of 50 set for use as a filter. Turn it off for one or more to continue.”

Seriously, this is so limiting that Shopify on;y allow 50 metafield definitions to be used as filters. Is there any workarounds or ways around this? I have around another 145 or so attributes to add to defiitions and set as filters but don’t seem to be able to move forward with that.

Ay help would be really appreciated if anyone has overcome this or has other solutions to get round this or achieve what I need in a better way. Ideally I don’t want to use any other apps.

Many Thanks,

Roo

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