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 You can use the following code in your ''product.liquid'' template to display the '''metafield''' information.
 <pre>
 {% assign inventory = product.metafields.inventory %}
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 </ul>
 </pre>
 The delivery time for the stock can also be displayed with this code.
 <pre>
 {% assign inventory = product.metafields.inventory %}
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 </ul>
 </pre>
+The delivery options can be retrieved as follows.
 Finally, if you need to output all of the '''metafields''' associated with an object, you can use the following code as an example.
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 ==== Namespace and Key name conventions ====
-As you can see from the above examples, you can use a number of different methods to access the value of the '''metafield''' with a specific key. The key can be any sort of string, and can include upper and lower case letters, as well as spaces. You cannot include any sort of special characters in the key.
+As you can see from the above examples, you can use a number of different methods to access the value of the '''metafield''' with a specific key. The key and namespace must be a string of lower-case letters and digits, including the underscore (_) character. You cannot include any sort of special characters in the key or namespace.
 These rules also apply to the choice of values for the namespace.
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 <pre>
 {% assign inventory = product.metafields.inventory %}
-{% assign key = 'Extra Delivery Cost' %}
+{% assign key = 'extra_delivery_cost' %}
 <ul>
    <li>Delivery Time: {{ inventory[key] }}</li>
-   <li>Delivery Time: {{ inventory['Extra Delivery Cost'] }}</li>
+   <li>Delivery Time: {{ inventory['extra_delivery_cost'] }}</li>
 </ul>
 </pre>

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 |delivery_time
 |2 days
 |}

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 The '''metafields''' object allows you to store extra information about your store, products, collections, orders, customers, blogs and pages. You can choose exactly what sort of information you wish to save and the exact format in which it's saved. This makes for a very powerful tool to assist you in the task of managing your store.
-A '''metafield''' is made up of a key and a value organized with other keys and values under a common namespace. An optional description can also be store with the key and the value. Values can be stored as either '''strings''' or '''integers'''.
+A '''metafield''' is made up of a key and a value organized with other keys and values under a common namespace. An optional description can also be store with the key and the value. Values can be stored as either '''strings''', '''integers''' or '''json strings'''.
 === Metafield Examples ===

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 The Liquid template variable '''metafields''' is associated with the following Liquid objects:
-* shop
+* [[Liquid Template Variables - shop|shop]]
-* product
+* [[Liquid Template Variables - product|product]]
-* variant
+* [[Liquid Template Variables - variant|variant]]
-* page
+* [[Liquid Template Variables - page|page]]
-* blog
+* [[Liquid Template Variables - blog|blog]]
-* collection
+* [[Liquid Template Variables - collection|collection]]
-* customer
+* [[Liquid Template Variables - customer|customer]]
-* order
+* [[Liquid Template Variables - order|order]]
 The '''metafields''' object allows you to store extra information about your store, products, collections, orders, customers, blogs and pages. You can choose exactly what sort of information you wish to save and the exact format in which it's saved. This makes for a very powerful tool to assist you in the task of managing your store.

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	</ul>		</ul>
	</pre>		</pre>
		+
		+	== Further Reference ==
		+
		+	* [[Liquid Basics]]
		+	* [[Liquid Tag Reference]]
		+	* [[Liquid Filter Reference]]
		+	* [[Liquid Variable Reference]]
		+	* [[Liquid Paginate Tag\|Pagination ]]

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    <li>Delivery Time: {{ inventory['delivery_time'] }}</li>
    <li>Delivery Time: {{ inventory.delivery_time }}</li>
 </ul>
 </pre>

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 === Metafield Examples ===
-As an example, you might wish to record the physical location of your inventory. You might keep some products in Sydney and others in Melbourne.
+As an example, you might wish to record the physical location and delivery time for your inventory.
 <html>
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 |-
 |inventory
-|location
+|delivery_time
-|Melbourne
+|2 days
 |}
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    <li>Stock Location: {{ inventory['location'] }}</li>
    <li>Stock Location: {{ inventory.location }}</li>
 </ul>
 </pre>

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	\|Melbourne		\|Melbourne
	\|}		\|}
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		+	You can use the following code in your ''product.liquid'' template to display the '''metafield''' information.
		+
		+	<pre>
		+	{% assign inventory = product.metafields.inventory %}
		+	{% assign key = 'location' %}
		+	<ul>
		+	<li>Stock Location: {{ inventory[key] }}</li>
		+	<li>Stock Location: {{ inventory['location'] }}</li>
		+	<li>Stock Location: {{ inventory.location }}</li>
		+	</ul>
		+	</pre>

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 <html>
    <style type="text/css">
    table.wikitable td { padding: 10px 20px !important; text-align: left; vertical-align: middle; }
    </style>
 </html>
 {| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"
-|style="width: 30%"
+!style="width: 30%"|namespace
 !key
 !value