How to Update a Shopify Metafield List of Metaobject References with a New Entry Using Shopify Flow?

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Hi guys, i am trying to setup a Flow that has the Metaobject Entry Created , then update a shop metafield value, which is a list of metaobject references , and add this new entry to the list… Can you help me how to achieve that?

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Personally, I’d use run code because you can injest the list of metaobjects and easily add another item.

The workflow might look like:

  • Metaobject entry created
  • Run code (with original metafield + metaobject ID), outputs a string that is the list of metaobjects
  • Update shop metafield (with the string variable like {{ runCode.theString }}
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Hi @paul_n ! yes, that might be a better solution for this! The final use case for this approach is very specific, i would like to read each metaobject entry (from shop metafield list) from a Shopify Function - however, i think I can only get an array of metaobjetcs ids from the run.graphql - i wasnt able to get their values

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Ah, you may be blocked by Functions then because I think they don’t support metaobjects yet. You could instead serialize the data to a string and make the metafield a list of strings?

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Yes, that might be the case, actually, maybe JSONvalue and keep the metafield a JSON value instead of metaobject refs… however, each metaobject can be quite long… so, i am not sure LOL