I am using a plugin that filters products. This means that products are no longer shown in the traditional product loop. I think the plugin has switched to using javascript to show products on the collection page rather than liquid.
For every product on a collection page, I wish to show its colour. Each product has a colour associated with it using a custom field.
If I manually manually enter a product handle in the below code, the colour for the product handle that has been entered successfully displays for each product.
{{ all_products["MANUALLY ENTERED PRODUCT HANDLE"].metafields.custom_fields["colour"] }}
I am also able to dynamically able to get a products handle with {!productHandle!}
For some reason however when I put the two together like this:
{{ all_products["{!productHandle!}"].metafields.custom_fields["colour"] }}
The result is that nothing is shown.
My question is, how can I dynamically pull the product handle into the custom field? I have already tried
{{ all_products[product.handle].metafields.custom_fields["colour"] }}
and
{{ all_products[product-handle].metafields.custom_fields["colour"] }}
Try saving the handle as a string. Eg:
{% capture fizz %}{{product.handle}}{%endcapture%}
{{ all_products[fizz].metafields.custom_fields["colour"] }}
Note that all_products is also limited to just 20 products.
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im probably having this issue due to my lack of my experience with the liquid and the shopify platform in general.
Here's my issue:
In the current theme im working on, when a product is added to card it is always adding the smallest available size. Im not 100 % confident this is the code that is actually doing it but im fairly positive it is.
onclick=" Shopify.addItem('{{ product.variants.first.id}}', 1);
Currently when this code is fired the products smallest size (assuming its the first) is added to the cart.
I tried to take a look at the shopify API documentation for product.variants but it seems the theme or store is not using the latest version since I cant find any references to this first property.
What I would like if for there to be control in terms of product size when the add to cart action is triggered. Instead of adding the smallest size always it can persay add product.variants.{SIZE}.id instead (Not actual code just a guess)
If anyone could point me in the right direction of proper documentation for something like this or if you've had a similar question I would greatly appreciate it!
this is easy :)
yes this is the code sending the product to the cart and this theme don't support product variants. You should add the variants support.
some theory:
Variants is an array.
variants.first is a liquid function for easily take the first element of the array, check the liquid docs for more details.
The important part is, to add an item you need to send the variant id. always is the variant id.
now the magic:
you need to iterate on product.variants, keep on someplace the variant id and finally pass the value to the function.
onclick=" Shopify.addItem('{{ product.variants.first.id}}', 1);
by
onclick=" Shopify.addItem( {{ variant.id }}, 1);
you can use wherever you want, you can use select, or even got for a pure js / ajax solution using the cart API
extra detail the 1 is the qty, you can set it dinamic too.
I don't know your desing, so on psedo-code with multiple buttons you can do:
{% for variant in product.variants %}
<button onclick="Shopify.addItem('{{ variant.id }}', 1)">
{{ variant.title }}
</button>
{% endfor %}
Almost all themes, free or paid, have proper functioning code to handle changes in variations. When a customer selects a variant, via a change in a select element or perhaps the click of a radio button, the existing code should update the currently selected variant properly. Your example of an onclick set to the first variant is probably one the most primitive modes of operation, and as you see, less than satisfactory.
As a beginner, your best bet is to download the Debut theme from Shopify and study the basics of how variant selection work from the position of working code. Only then could you hope to be able to mod your own themes.
I'm new in Shopify and looking for suggestions to implement a specific size chart to add product page. Adding some code in sections->product-template.liquid to get size chart using this code to filter with the product.type
{% if product.type == 'mens' %}
// put your tank top sizing chart here
{{ pages.mens-size-chart.content }}
{% endif %}
{% if product.type == 'women' %}
// put your tank top sizing chart here
{{ pages.women-size-chart.content }}
{% endif %}
This work but, I don't want to filter with the product.type .There is any way to add some dropdown in admin new product panel and get this filed to show size chart without adding any app its possible.
Here is the step by step documentation to add size chart to product pages.
Shopify create size chart
I can think of at least 5 approaches you can use in this case.
Section
Create a section for the product with blocks.
Each block will have the following fields:
product field, where you will select the product
page field, where you will select the page you want
Then loop the blocks and look if the product field is equal to the product handle and use that page
Link List
Create a link list with products.
The title will be the page handle and the url will be the product.
You loop each link in the navigation and check if it's url is equal to the product handle. If yes, you use it's title to get the page content.
Prefix pages
Since you are creating pages based on the type, you can prefix them. So if the type is "mens" the page can be called product_mens and you will get the page based on the product type with the product_ prefix.
Settings
You can create a textarea with a similar syntax:
product-handle|page-handle
product-handle|page-handle
You use the filter newline_to_br, split the result by br, loop each item and split it by | and you got the product-handle and the page handle that you can check.
Tags
You can use prefixed tags, that can target the page. The same as the prefixed pages, here you create a tag with the page-handle and add some kind of prefix to it. Then you loop all of the tags and check if there is a page with any of the prefixed tags.
I'm new to Shopify and liquid (I have programming background). What i'm currently trying to achieve is adding some unique custom information in a HTML div into the product layout.
My approach: Because I couldn't directly edit the product.liquid file (was generating the same information for all products), I decided to make a hack, so I created liquid files into the snippets by joining the product id + product. The filename would look like "11598995151product.liquid".
Into the product.liquid, I then added the following:
{% if product.description %}<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-6 col-lg-6 col-xl-6 visible-xl" style="display:block !important">
{% assign z = x | append: product.id | append: "product" %}
{% include z %}
</div>{% endif %}
Is this the best practice or can it be done easier ?
I slightly confused, you can't directly update the product.liquid but yet you are adding an include there. So can you or you can't?
Here a few approaches how can you add custom unique information to products.
1) Use an metafeild application such as https://apps.shopify.com/metafields-editor where you can set fields for each product
2) Use shortcodes for example with this snippet https://github.com/culturekings/shopify-shortcodes
3) Create prefixed pages, for example you have a product with a handle test-1, and you will have a page with a handle product-test-1. You perform a check for each product if there is such a page.
4) Similiar to 3 but use a global navigation that will point to page, so that you don't have to prefix each one.
5) Use sections. Create blocks with a product field and a richtext field (or the information you need) and set the product and information for each product as blocks. Then on the product page you check if this product handle is equal to any of the block product field.
All of the above examples require you to modify the product.liquid page if you like for it to be unique for each product.
Each product has the custom fields options. Can I output those custom fields on each product item in the product list page? If so, how? I have tried adding the ProductOtherDetails and the %%SNIPPET_ProductCustomFieldItem%% in the CategoryProductsItem.html, but got no output at all of any of the items I have tried. Any suggestions or pointers on how and if this is possible?
As of September 2015, you can now access %%GLOBAL_ProductCustomFields%% on any template file that renders a particular panel's individual items. For example:
-Snippets/CategoryProductsItem.html for category list pages
-Snippets/HomeFeaturedProductsItem.html for the featured products panel
I recommend adding the custom field name as a class to each field for easy hiding, and accessing of the value in case the custom fields ever change you won't be accessing them via :nth-child CSS which would break. You can do so by modify Snippets/ProductCustomFieldItem.html to add the custom field name to the CSS class or ID like this:
<div class="DetailRow %%GLOBAL_CustomFieldName%%">
<div class="Label">%%GLOBAL_CustomFieldName%%:</div>
<div class="Value">
%%GLOBAL_CustomFieldValue%%
</div>
</div>
Doing so, will output like this in each item in the category list.
Above, I am using the custom fields to send through shipping time, as well as "Starting At" to prepend to the list page price if the item is a parent which has children of higher prices. In my opinion, these features greatly increase the user experience.
For Faceted Search (handlebars.js)
I recommend adding this to Panels/FacetedSearchProductGrid.html:
{{#each product.custom_fields}}
{{ id }} : {{ name }} : {{ value }}
{{/each}}
Those filters will be limited to the Product pages specifically. The only way around it is to hash together a solution using jQuery to go and fetch items in question from the product page. A pain, but do-able with unnecessary effort.
Looking for some advice on an interesting situation using Shopify. I'm building a site for a client that has Products that have free replacement parts available. Each replacement part has variant color options.
So far I have had the users at the company add all the replacement parts as products in the store. I have filtered the search results and the catalog results so the replacment parts are not show.
The only place they want the replacement parts to show is when a user visits a PRODUCT, they can click a button that says order replacement parts. Then a screen will show with all the replacement parts for that product.
A single replacement part may belong to several products and may have different color variants.
So what I have done thus far was had the client tag all parts with at least two tags. A tag called "part" that identifies the product as a part. And one or more tags like "link:SKU123" that links the part to one or more products. Then on my Product page I was using liquid to loop all parts and display the ones that matched the products SKU. Then I found out that the for loop has a 50 item limit...
So I looked at the product API, which would be ok, except that it has no way to filter by tags. Tags seem so handy and yet I don't see many ways to use them... So ultimately I'm looking for a way to display all replacement parts for a particular product. It doesn't have to involve tags, although the client has already tagged all the parts and I would hate to tell them it was a waste of time. But really any thoughts on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.
The only way I can think to do it, is to return all of the replacement parts and then filter through them on the page. I see the API is limited to 250 products, but I suppose I could make multiple calls until I get them all. I'm not sure how many replacment parts there are total, but I suspect there could be upwards of 1000. Seems like a waste of network resources to have to pull them all down and then filter through them...
P.S. - the replacement parts are free, can they be run through the checkout with a zero dollar amount?
Ok so I have a couple different answers to this question. Not sure which one I will use yet.
Method 1: Filter Collection by Tag using URL
The first one was provided by Shawn Rudolph on the Shopify forums. It involves filtering a collection by tag using the URL. Shawn's post here explains it well: https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/shopify-discussion/t/product-replacement-parts-270174
Method 2: Use paginate to get all products from collection using the AJAX API
This method is pretty cool. Yes it is more work than method one, but this maybe useful in a lot of scenarios. Out of the box Shopify does not allow you to retrieve all products from a given collection using the AJAX API. It can be done with the admin API but not the AJAX one to my knowledge. However, you can access all products from a collection with a for loop, but the for loop only allows up to 50 items to be looped at a time. That's where the paginate trick comes in. Basically I adapted the technique outlined by davecap here: http://www.davecap.com/post/9675189741/infinite-scroll-for-shopify-collections
So first you need your HTML/Liquid layout:
{% paginate collections.mycollectionname.products by 50 %}
{% for product in collections.mycollectionname.products %}
<div class="clone-node" id="product-{{ forloop.index | plus:paginate.current_offset }}">
{{ product.title }}
</div>
{% endfor %}
{% if paginate.next %}
<div class="clone-node next" title="{{ paginate.next.url }}"></div>
{% endif %}
<div id="insertion-point"></div>
{% endpaginate %}
So let's break it down a bit. First we are paginating are products by 50. This is the max amount a for loop will allow, so that's what we are going to use:
{% paginate collections.mycollectionname.products by 50 %}
Next we begin to loop our products. Every product is given a wrapper div with a class of "clone-node" this is very important. I also assign the div a unique ID, which isn't necessary for this to work, but may come in handy when trying to identify the product for later operations.
{% for product in collections.mycollectionname.products %}
<div class="clone-node" id="product-{{ forloop.index | plus:paginate.current_offset }}">
{{ product.title }}
</div>
{% endfor %}
We have to make sure to include the paginate.next URL. We also give this a "clone-node" class and we add a "next" class. I assign the paginate.next.url to the title attribute, but you could assign it to any number of attributes. You just need to be able to fetch it with jQuery.
{% if paginate.next %}
<div class="clone-node next" title="{{ paginate.next.url }}"></div>
{% endif %}
Then lastly we assign an insertion point. This is where we want our next set of 50 products to be inserted once we fetch them:
<div id="insertion-point"></div>
OK so now let's look at the JS code:
<script>
var prevUrl = ""; //this helps us know when we are done receiving products
function getParts() {
//get the last instance of the .next node. This will give us the next URL to query
var nextNode= $(".next").last(),
url = nextNode.attr("title"); //nab the URL
//send a get request to our next URL
$.ajax({
type: 'GET',
url: url,
dataType:'text',
success: function (data) {
//use a dummy div to convert the text to HTML, then find all of our clone-nodes, including our new "next" div which contains our next URL
var cloneNodes = $("<div>").html(data).find(".clone-node");
//insert our new clone-nodes on the page
cloneNodes.insertBefore("#insertion-point");
//if the URL's don't match let's grab the next 50!
if (prevUrl != url) {
prevUrl = url;
getParts();
}
}
});
}
//Call getParts for the first time to get the party started.
getParts();
</script>
What this will basically do, is get the URL for the next page of products from the title attribute of the div that's holding the paginate.next.url. Then using the jQuery ajax function we call that URL and it returns a page of HTML to use formatted just like our existing page, with the same "clone-node" classes we assigned, only it has the next 50 products embedded in it.
In davecap's example he used a dataType of HTML on his Ajax call, but that gave me some troubles. So instead, I used dataType text and used a dummy div created by jQuery to convert the text into HTML. Then jQuery grabs all of the divs with the "clone-node" class on them and inserts them on the page before our insertion-point. Remember the clone-nodes now hold the next 50 products so we just added the next 50 products to our page.
Lastly, we check if the previous URL is not equal to the current one. If it's not equal, that means it's a new URL and thus there must be more products to fetch, so we recursively call our getParts() function, which starts the process over and grabs the next 50. This continues until finally the URLs match, which means no more products to fetch, and the process stops.
There you have it! Of course if you have to fetch thousands and thousands of products this may be less then ideal because you are calling them 50 at a time. But for smaller numbers (maybe hundreds and hundreds...) it should work just fine.
I would create the parts as standalone products. Then each part will have variants (colours). Then you create metafields for this parts (product) which have a field with a list of all product ids which are 'mother' for this parts. This way you don't need to have strange tags and you keep concepts more separated, & everything cleaner. As per the zero amount, yes, you can go to checkout with zero amount (if your shipping settings allow you to do so).