Article List as Dynamic Source?

[cory_kelley]

Short description of issue

Unable to use list.article_reference metafield as a dynamic source to auto-populate multiple article blocks in a section.

Reproduction steps

1. Create a product metafield of type list.article_reference (e.g. custom.buying_guides).

2. Add a section with blocks defined as:
   {
   “type”: “article”,
   “id”: “article”,
   “label”: “Article”
   }

3. In the theme editor, attempt to connect the buying_guides metafield as a dynamic source for these blocks.

4. Observe that the metafield is not available in the dynamic source picker.

Additional info

Based on docs, list.article_reference is a supported metafield type for sections and blocks.

However, unlike list.product_reference, it doesn’t fan out into multiple article blocks when used as a dynamic source.

Current workaround: manually loop through the metafield in Liquid, but this bypasses the Theme Editor’s block UI.

Would be useful if article lists behaved consistently with product lists.

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[cory_kelley]

Bumpin’ this so maybe some of the Shopifolk can let us know if this is in the cards or if I should give up on the dream and let our dev team know they’ll just need to build this by looping over metafields in liquid

cc @Liam-Shopify @Alan_G

[haroldao]

I’ve the same issue… (annoying)