Using assign to exclude a tag from collection.products. Is it possible?

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Hi, I am trying to modify my collection.products for loop to exclude products with a tag labelled as “hide”. Below is the sample from the documentation. Any way to modify this to say "where tags do not equal ‘hide’?

{% assign visible_products = collection.products | where: 'vendor', "Polina's Potent Potions" %}

I’m aware i can use unless inside the loop, but that does not play friendly with ajaxify for endless scrolling. I need those products tagged as “hide” to not exist in the array of products.

2

You don’t necessarily need to create a new array. The part where for loop starts to display the products in the collection, add an if statement to check if the product does not contain a hide tag and render the product snippet for only those products.

Your if statement would basically look like this

{% if product.tags != ‘hide’%}

Render product snippet

{% endif %}

This will save from creating new array and then looping over it and other hassle.

Hope this helps.

Best

Shadab

3

This causes the same issue as using {% unless product.tags contains ‘Hide’ %}. It is part of the products array and causes pagination issues with ajaxify. The counter hits 30, even though 25 are displayed, because 5 are in the array and hidden from being printed. My solution requires products with the tag of “Hide” to not be a part of the array at all.

4

You are right my bad. You can still use the if or unless statement outside of the for loop to create a new array and use that array to loop. Why use this advanced filtering if you have if or unless?

5

Thank you so much, Can you show me on how to create a new array using unless or if? I can’t seem to find any working examples.

6

I will give you an example code of how i created an array for available and sold out products and created a new array from to have avialable products first and then sold out products for a client.

{% assign available_products = ‘’ %}
{% assign sold_out_products = ‘’ %}

{% for product in collection.products %}
{% if product.available %}
{% assign available_products = available_products | append: product.handle | append: ‘,’ %}
{% else %}

{% assign sold_out_products = sold_out_products | append: product.handle | append: ‘,’ %}
{% endif %}

{% endfor %}

{% assign sorted_products_handles = available_products | append: sold_out_products %}

{% assign final_array = sorted_products_handles | split: ‘,’ %}

Hope this helps your case

Best
Shadab