Ask Sidekick about Metafields Guru: your sets, plan, bulk actions, and theme blocks

Metafields Guru now works inside Shopify Sidekick. Instead of clicking through the app to find an answer, just ask Sidekick in plain words: "Which metafield sets do I have for products?", "Will this export use credits?", "Why did yesterday's import fail?" or "Which metafields does my theme show?". Sidekick reads your Metafields Guru setup, answers in seconds, and hands you a link to open the exact page in the app.

What's new at a glance

• Answers without digging - ask Sidekick about your Metafields Guru setup in plain words instead of hunting through menus.
• Know before you run - check your plan, limits, and app credits, and whether an export, import, or bulk edit will use credits.
• Understand what went wrong - Sidekick explains why items in an import or bulk edit failed, starting with the most common reasons.
• One click to the right page - every answer about a set, field, or bulk action comes with a link that opens it in Metafields Guru.

What you can ask

Sidekick can now look into four parts of Metafields Guru:

• Metafield sets - which sets you have for products, variants, collections, customers, orders, and other resources, whether they are active, which products they show up on, and which fields and validation rules they contain. You can also ask about a single metafield and which sets use it.
• Your plan and app credits - your current plan, its limits, your credit balance, and whether bulk actions on a resource will use credits in your store.
• Bulk actions - your recent and running exports, imports, and bulk edits: their status, what settings they ran with, which files are ready to download, and why items failed.
• Storefront blocks - which Metafields Guru theme app blocks are placed in your theme and which metafields they show to customers.

A few questions to try:

• "Which product metafield sets are inactive?"
• "Which sets use the custom.care_guide field?"
• "Will exporting all my products use app credits?"
• "Why did my last import have failed rows?"
• "Which metafields does my live theme show through Metafields Guru blocks?"

Ask in Sidekick, act in Metafields Guru

The Metafields Guru tools in Sidekick only read your setup - they never change it. When you are ready to edit a set, run an export, or download a file, Sidekick gives you a link and the work happens in Metafields Guru, where you see the exact cost before anything runs.

Questions about the metafield values themselves - "what is the care guide of this product?"

• are answered by Sidekick's built-in Shopify tools, so the two work side by side.

FAQ

What can I ask Sidekick about Metafields Guru?

You can ask about your metafield sets (which sets exist for a resource, whether they are active, which fields and validation rules they contain, and which sets use a given metafield), your Metafields Guru plan, limits, and app credits (including whether a bulk action on a resource will use credits), your exports, imports, and bulk edits (status, settings, available files, and why items failed), and the Metafields Guru theme app blocks placed in your theme along with the metafields they show.

Can Sidekick change my Metafields Guru settings or run bulk actions?

No. The Metafields Guru tools in Sidekick are read-only: they answer questions about your setup and give you a link to the right page in Metafields Guru. Creating or editing sets, running exports, imports, and bulk edits, and downloading files all still happen in the app.

Does Sidekick read my metafield values through Metafields Guru?

No. The Metafields Guru tools only read Metafields Guru configuration and bulk action data. Metafield values and Shopify's own metafield definitions are handled by Sidekick's built-in Shopify tools, not by Metafields Guru.

Do I need to set anything up to use Metafields Guru in Sidekick?

No extra setup is needed - the Sidekick tools ship with the Metafields Guru app. If Metafields Guru is installed on your store, open Sidekick in Shopify admin and ask your question.

Try it

Open Sidekick in your Shopify admin and ask it anything about your Metafields Guru sets, plan, bulk actions, or theme blocks. New to Metafields Guru? Install it from the Shopify App Store, start with the introduction, or compare plans on the pricing page.