Hi. I’m trying to get a customer metafield (type: list of dates and times) to update when that customer purchases a particular product. (Specifically this is an annual membership product and I want to record a list of dates for when the customer purchases/renews it.) The Flow trigger (order created…

Hi @DaveHewer , Could it be that you’re trying to add a single date to a list type? That requires a specific syntax. I found a similar question with a solution at https://community.shopify.com/post/2474676 .

Thanks for the input @Webstablish . I’ve tried putting the value in square brackets and adding quotation marks (see below). However, the post you linked to seemed to be assuming that I wanted to add a list of dates, whereas I’m wanting to add a single date to a list of dates. [“{{order.createdAt |…

You should see it as an array, so even if it can contain multiple values you can give it a single item initially. The comma separates multiple items. So on the next renewal you have to somehow model: [currentValue + ‘,’ + newValue].

Thanks — that makes sense. Can you give me any more pointers on how exactly to achieve that?

Hi Dave, Two things here: The date format should be date: "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" You can use the following liquid in the “value” part of the “Update customer metafield” step: [ {% for value_item in customer.thedates.value %} "{{value_item}}", {% endfor %} "{{customer.createdAt | date: "%Y-%m-%…

I think I’m close to getting this to finally work, but it’s not quite there yet. I’m no longer getting an error on the Flow logs (it’s saying the metafield is being successfully updated) but nothing has actually been added to the customer’s metafield when I check it. Screenshot below of the Flow ac…

Update customer metafield (list of dates) with date using Flow

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Kalen_Jordan October 10, 2024, 6:16pm 3

Yeah I think that’s it.

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Update customer metafield (list of dates) with date using Flow

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