I am developing a shopify app.
Is it possible to add a new link to the main menu via the shopify API?
Thanks
If you log in to your partner account and then create an App you can edit the created App and you will see all the resources at your disposal where you can add a new link.
If you notice also, using the API you can pull and rewrite any asset in a shop to contain a new link. This is discouraged as bad practice. Instead, inject a script tag that does the dirty work.
Soon as I know the API itself cannot change something inside the theme files... some APPs ask you to apply some code manually in the theme, with proper instructions... maybe this code could add the new menu or dynamically interact to get it.
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I am building a new Shopify public app that displays a custom input in the product listing page (at the customer side).
So to enable this, the Shopify Admin should be able to choose specific products to enable this input. And I see two ways to implement this.
Extend Add/Edit product form to add a new section that houses my app-specific config options. See the image for an example.
If the 1st option is not possible, I will provide a separate form on my app page to select products and configure my app-specific options.
So is it possible to do #1? Also, which option is the better way of doing things here?
Any links to documentation would be helpful.
You can't modify the admin panel in any form using an App.
The only thing you can do on these pages is to add a link inside the "More actions" to your app page.
You can use extensions/bookmarklets/userscripts to create some custom logic to modify the admin page and communicate in some overly complicated way with your app but it will require more steps for the customer to work with your app which is not a very friendly way and you may not pass the review process for public apps.
TL;DR you must handle everything from your app screens and you can't modify the admin front-end in any form to add additional stuffs or modify existing ones.
We have an application which integrates with Shopify Clothing stores. We run our application in an iframe inside the shopify store where it interacts with the store's user.
Right now this application gets integrated with Shopify manually by inserting our script tag inside the store's product page. Can someone tell me how I can do this using a shopify app or theme extension?
Edit after David's answer
Is it also possible for me to get information about standard buttons in the theme like the Add to Cart button or Change Variants input. Ideally I would like to get the selector for these.
You would create a Shopify App that asks for permission to write ScriptTags. The Apps simply installs a script tag pointing to your App. So when the merchant installs your App, they get the script tag. Depending on what your App does in that iframe, you may need your Shopify App to provide other support, but that is not detailed in your OP, so I leave it at that.
I am trying to write a Shopify application and I want to add a section to the product page when the store owner installed my app. I tried this by adding a custom script tag in the shop template and this tag will load and inject my desired HTML into the page. It's work but it needs to force the store owner to change the product page template and its not user-friendly.
I see some apps in the Shopify app store that can change the product page after you install them without needs add any part to the product page template. How they do this work? I can't find the correct way in the Shopify documents.
You can change the Shopify theme of the shop using The API for Assets:
However as drip mentioned this is not a good idea:
If you change the theme auto-magically via code, you are looking for trouble. A lot of things can go wrong - simply you cannot cater for all themes and their changes over time! So you could possibly leave a broken page after the change. The e-shop owner won't be impressed! Actually a lot of the 1* reviews of apps are for that reason!
What would happen if the eshop owner removes your app? He won't know what code to remove.
So, most apps ask the user to add the app code. They provide detailed instructions of course.
Fyi, another problematic approach is the following:
Some apps may attempt to change the DOM "on the fly", by first locating an existing DOM element (a lot of theme-specific if statements to do that with any degree of success) and, then insert the app's DOM elements.
That's very messy and problematic as well, but at least you do not risk ruining the owner's theme files. In the worst case he can uninstall your app and he 'll be ok.
I see multiple scopes on Shopify API likes write_themes or write_script_tags to add content in differents files of the theme.
I would like to create an app to add a marketing pixel in differents pages like checkout, index or add_to_cart.
I will need to add a script like :
<script>
...PixelCode...
init('API_KEY', VIEW)
</script>
I will need to set the API_KEY variable dynamique and editable from the panel of the app.
What is the best scope and way to do that ?
Thank you in advance.
Have your App installed in the merchant shop. They approve your App to add script tags. Next up, have your App install the needed script tags. Finally, profit from your hard work.
As for the scopes, writing a script tag only requires that scope. You are not modifying the merchant's theme, so you do not need that scope.
We have a Sitefinity 3.2 site in production and the users want a whole new look and feel. Upgrading is not an option.
I have created new templates for them but they will need to go into the site and create all new pages using the new templates. This is a problem because they want the current site to remain unchanged until they are done - then they want to instantly switch over.
One problem that I see already is that pages will not show up in the menu control until they are published.
I am very new to Sitefinity. Is there a standard practice for doing this?
You don't need to re-create all of the pages to change the look and feel; simply change the template assigned.
This video shows how to work with themes and templates.
I'd think that changing the theme of all the templates late at night should be "instantly" enough for most people. :)