Metafields can be very useful to have on hand when designing or customizing your theme. For example, you may want to display the event date, time, location, etc in a structured way, rather than putting it into the product title or description.
Namespace
For any supported type (currently only Products), all metafields are stored in the event_ticketing namespace. To output all metafields for an product, you can do:
{{ product.metafields.event_ticketing }}
As Guest Manager uses liquid too, the liquid variables and format is the same for consistency. E.g., in Guest Manager the venue name might be accessible as {{ event.venue.name }}and in Shopify it would be accessible (in a product) as {{ product.metafields.event_ticketing.event.venue.name }}
Dates
The start and end date are stored as meta fields. Note: for multi-day events, the start date will be the first event, and the end date is the last event in the series.
{{ product.metafields.event_ticketing.event.starts_at }} -> 2020-07-16T08:00:00.000000-07:00 (Time zone aware ISO8601 date format)
{{ product.metafields.event_ticketing.event.ends_at }}
To format the date, you may use liquid filters, for example:
{{ product.metafields.event_ticketing.event.starts_at | date: "%a, %b %d, %Y" }}-> Thu, Jul 16, 2020
For help formatting dates, please refer to the following guides:
- Date filter liquid guide
- Understanding date formats in Liquid and Shopify
- Using metafields in your Shopify theme
- Shopify manual on metafields
Product metafields
| Key | Description | Example | Tag |
|---|---|---|---|
starts_at |
Event start date and time (with time zone). | 2020-07-16T08:00:00.000000-07:00 | {{ product.metafields.event.starts_at }} |
ends_at |
Event end date and time (with time zone). | 2020-07-16T08:00:00.000000-07:00 | {{ product.metafields.event.ends_at }} |
