Update company metafield

The Update company metafield action adds a metafield to the company that triggers the workflow, or updates an existing metafield on that company.

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Fields

The Update company metafield action contains the following fields.

Fields used in the update metafield action.
FieldDescription
Metafield namespaceRequired. A metafield namespace is a container for a group of metafields. Grouping metafields within a namespace prevents your metafields from conflicting with other metafields.
KeyRequired. A key is an identifier for the metafield value.
ValueRequired. The value is the information to be stored in the metafield. The value is always stored as a string, regardless of the metafield's type.
TypeThe data type of the metafield's value.

For details on what format is required for each value and type, consult the metafields documentation.

Triggers

The Update company metafield action requires a Company ID that is added automatically based on the workflow, usually from the trigger. Therefore, the Update company metafield action can be used in workflows that start with the following triggers:

Example

Example of a workflow that adds a company metafield when a company is created

In this example workflow, a metafield custom.source is added with the value of tradeshow to all companies that are created with the note NY Tradeshow 2022.

API details

To learn more, review the MetafieldInput input object.

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