Options for custom data

Options for custom data expand what your metafields and metaobjects can do in your store.

List of options available for metaobjects

The following options are available for metaobjects:

List of options available for metaobjects.
Option	Availability	Description
Storefronts access	Metaobjects	Allows you to use the metaobject in your Online Store either through Liquid or the Storefront API.
Publish entries as web pages	Metaobjects	Allows you to use the metaobject to build a theme template for a web page. You need Storefront access selected for this option.
Active-draft status	Metaobjects	Entries can transition between active and draft publishing states.
Translations	Metaobjects	Entries can be translated into different languages.
Use as a filter in metaobject index	Metaobject fields of the following types: Single line text / Single line text (list) Product reference / Product reference (list) True or false Collection reference / Collection reference (list) Page reference / Page reference (list) Metaobject reference / Metaobject reference (list)	Allows you to use a field of your metaobject to filter in the metaobject index. You can activate this option for a maximum of 50 metaobject field definitions.

List of options available for metafields

The following options are available for metafields:

List of options available for metafields.
Option	Availability	Description
Storefronts access	All metafield types	Allows you to use the metafield in your Online Store either through Liquid or the Storefront API.
Use in analytics	Products, Variants, Customers, and Orders metafields: Single line text / Single line text (list) Multi-line text / Multi-line text (list) Integer / Integer (list) Decimal / Decimal (list) Product reference True or false Date / Date and time URL Color ID Rating	Allows you to use the metafield as a dimension or filter in your Shopify reports. Learn more about filtering and editing your Shopify reports .
Use as a filter in product index	Product metafields: Single line text / Single line text (list) Product reference / Product reference (list) True or false Collection reference / Collection reference (list) Page reference / Page reference (list) Metaobject reference / Metaobject reference (list)	Allows you to use the metafield to filter in the product index. You can activate this option for a maximum of 50 metafield definitions.
Use as a filter in orders index	Order metafields: Single line text / Single line text (list) True or false Company reference / Company reference (list) Metaobject reference / Metaobject reference (list)	Allows you to use the metafield to filter in the orders index. You can activate this feature for a maximum of 5 metafield definitions.
Use as a filter in company index and company location index	Company and company location metafields: Single line text / Single line text (list) Product reference / Product reference (list) True or false Collection reference / Collection reference (list) Page reference / Page reference (list) Metaobject reference / Metaobject reference (list)	Allows you to use the metafield to filter in the company and company location index pages. You can activate this feature for a maximum of 50 metafield definitions.
Use in smart collections	Product metafields: Single line text Single line text (list) True or false Integer Decimal Rating	Allows you to use the metafield to create smart collections. You can activate this feature for a maximum of 128 metafield definitions.
Customer account access	Customer account metafields: Customers Company Company location Orders	Definition is available through the Customer Account API.

Activate or deactivate options

You can edit the feature options for metafields or metaobjects at any time.

Steps:

From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Metafields and metaobjects.
Click the part of your store that has the custom data that you want to change the features for.
Click the custom data type.
In the Options section of the metafield or metaobject, select or deselect the feature options available.
Click Save.