Manage metaobjects

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do the following tasks:

• Define metaobjects
• Create metaobject entries

• Your app can make authenticated requests to the GraphQL Admin API.
• You're using API version 2023-01 or higher.

You want your app to offer a way for merchants to create highlights for products they're creating. Merchants might want to showcase the quality of their goods or interesting facts about the product.

Before merchants can start creating highlights, your app will need to tell Shopify what a product highlight is. Shopify doesn't have a product highlight resource, so you need to define one using the metaobjectDefinitionCreate mutation:

After defining what a product highlight is, you can create entries or instances of your product highlights using the metaobjectCreate mutation:

With your product highlight entry now created, you can read it back from the API using the metaobjects paginated query to retrieve all of your highlights:

You can also retrieve a single metaobject by its handle using the metaobjectByHandle query:

• Learn more about access controls.
• Learn about metaobject capabilities.