Hi, recently Shopify’s app bridge gained access to the “Intents API”. I tried integrating it into our app to enable collection editing, but we’ve encountered blockers that make it unsuitable for our needs.
Here’s our use case: our app automatically manages products within collections, and we’d like to give merchants the ability to edit collections directly from the app interface. However, the modal opened by the Intents API also allows users to add and remove products manually—which directly conflicts with our app’s core function of automating product management. If we expose this modal, merchants will inevitably try adding and removing products through it, only to become confused when the app automatically reverts or modifies those changes.
Ideally, we’d like an interface with the same editing features, but without the product list. This would prevent any confusion for merchants.
I’d also like to suggest a broader feature request: it would be valuable if apps could manage collections that are entirely automated, with users unable to manually add or remove products. This would be distinct from smart collections, since merchants wouldn’t be able to modify filters either.