Warning/Lock Collection managed by app

Retired Boards Appdev Merchandising

Topic summary

App needs to auto-manage a manual collection but prevent merchants from manually adding/removing products or at least warn them the collection is app-managed.

  • Proposed approach: create an Admin UI extension using the target admin.collection-details.action.render to display a banner on the collection page (link to Shopify docs provided).
  • Result of trial: extension works but appears at the bottom of the page and only if the user has pinned it, limiting visibility/effectiveness.

Status: No confirmed way in the thread to lock or block edits to the collection from the admin. The warning approach via UI extension is possible but has UX limitations. The request to either warn by default or prevent edits may require a feature request to Shopify. Discussion remains open.

Summarized with AI on December 25. AI used: gpt-5.
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That’s great ! I was not aware of the possibility of having this kind of extension.

I was able to play with it, and while I see great potential with it, it lives at the bottom of the page, only if the user pinned it to the UI.