How to setup siblings
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Feature introduced in Story 3.2.0
There are four main components to setting up product siblings:
Creating individual products. Each product can have variants like sizes.
Group the siblings products into a collection.
Define two custom metafields to link each product together which will automatically create linked product swatches.
Update the metafield information for each product.
Create individual products that are similar. Use the same name for the product title with each product:
Once connected to each other as siblings, they will appear with linked swatches to each other:
Each product can have its own images, inventory, prices, description, variants like Size:
A Color variant isn't required as that will be replaced by image swatches and a metafield is used to display the color.
Tip: Create the first product with sizes and prices, then duplicate that product and add new images for each variation and adjust the description, inventory, and prices. Only the product name needs to be the same for all products.
After creating the products, place them all in one collection. The collection does not need to be used for any other purpose:
The collection is not displayed in the store like other collections, you can keep the collection details very simple:
We recommend you use the word "Siblings" in the title of the the collection. This will help in the next step where we can hide collections globally that contain a keyword.
Story includes a new feature where you can hide collections to customers when viewing your site. Open Theme settings from the Theme Editor - Located at the bottom left:
Next, open the Advanced section:
Add the keyword "sibling" or "siblings" (lowercase is fine) to the second section - Exclude collections if they contain.
Save your changes.
The next step is to create two product metafields which are used to connect all the products and information together:
