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FAQ
- Unlike other metafields apps, FieldsRaven is built for developers.
- FieldsRaven doesn't have an admin UI to create and manage metafields.
- As a developer you need to write a few lines of HTML, Liquid and JavaScript to take advantage of the app. (Check quick start guide)
- Metafields should be created on a specific events on the storefront, based on customer actions or predetermined logic.
- Have a look at the example features link to get a better idea of what you might be able to build on top of FieldsRaven.
There are a few things that contributes to that delay:
- 1.Each request to FieldsRaven gets queued, so there is delay depending on how long the queue is
- 2.The requests coming from the storefront to FieldsRaven will be throttled to match Shopify API rate limit for the store
- 3.Shopify REST API takes on average 1.5 seconds to create a metafield
- 4.Shopify cache, unpublished themes will display newly created metafields faster than published/live themes
I guess there are a couple of things I can do on my end to
- 1.Add transparency on the time it took FieldsRaven to send the request to Shopify
- 2.How long it took Shopify to return a response (success/fail)
- 3.Try GraphQL API, which might be a bit faster and more generous with rate limit
At the moment however, I don't have a plan to invest time on this.
Regarding changing values to blank, I assume that should work with text type fields, for other available types you might wanna change it to 0 for numbers and maybe an empty "{}" for JSON, and then manage the display of those values with liquid.
At the moment, I validate the value on the backend so if the value isn't valid for the field type the value will get rejected.
I guess I should add a delete field endpoint, maybe at some point I will :)