Use availability of a referenced product in metaobject page template?

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Problem: A user needed to conditionally display a button on a metaobject page template based on whether a referenced product (stored in a “product” type field) is available.

Initial Issue: Using {{ metaobject.related_product }} returned only the product’s GID, not the full product object needed to check availability.

Solution: Use .value to access the actual product object from the metafield reference:

{% if metaobject.related_product.value.available %}
  Display button
{% endif %}

Key Points:

  • .value converts the metafield reference into a usable object with accessible properties
  • The syntax is "true" is not valid in Liquid; use the property directly in conditionals
  • The user had previously tried .value but placed it incorrectly after .available instead of before

Status: Resolved. The user confirmed the solution worked.

Summarized with AI on October 28. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

I’m pretty new to all of this, apologies if this is a dumb question.

Let’s say I’ve got a metaobject definition that includes a field of the “product” type, called “related_product”. On each entry, I select the related product. On the page template for that metaobject, I want to display a button only if that referenced product is available.

In a custom liquid element, I’m finding that

{{ metaobject.related_product }}

kicks out the gid of the related product I selected on that entry. Great, so it’s seeing that product

But I was hoping to do something like

{% if metaobject.related_product.available is “true” %}

Display button

{% endif %}

But can’t seem to get anything like that to work. Any way to make something like that work?

2

Why not use metafields for this? Just asking.

Not sure but May be using metafields you can get more than gid so other info of the product.

3

You need to use .value to get actual product object from the metafield reference:

https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/objects/metafield

{% if metaobject.related_product.value.available %}

Display button

{% endif %}

is “true” is not a thing in Liquid.

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4

AHHHhhhh, thanks so much. I had already tried using .value but I had put it after .available

5

Basically, .value makes an object out of reference.

So you use it on the metafield reference and then can use object properties.