Enable the Collection condition

Add one template file to your theme so the Collection condition can match products.

The Collections condition needs one small template file in your theme. Without it, the app can't tell which collections a product belongs to on the storefront, so a countdown targeted at a collection won't appear.

You only do this once per theme, and the app tells you when it's needed: a warning banner appears in the countdown builder, with a Request setup button if you'd rather support did it for you.

Other conditions — All Products, Select products, Product variants, Page, Customer, Language, Country — don't need this file. Only Collections does.

Steps to add the file

1

Open your theme's code editor

In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store → Themes. On the theme you want, click the … (More actions) button and choose Edit code.

Open the theme's code editor from More actions → Edit code.

2

Create a new template file

In the Templates folder, click Add a new template, choose a search template of type liquid, and name it:

samiCountdownsProductsJson

Shopify saves this as templates/search.samiCountdownsProductsJson.liquid.

Create a search template named samiCountdownsProductsJson.

3

Replace its contents

Delete whatever Shopify put in the new file and paste this in its place:

{%- layout none -%}
{%- paginate search.results by 1000 -%}
    [{%- for product in search.results -%}
        {%- unless forloop.first -%},{%- endunless -%}
        {
            "id":{{-product.id-}},
            "title":{{-product.title | json-}},
            "handle":{{-product.handle | json-}},
            "price":"{{-product.price-}}",
            "price_max":"{{-product.price_max}}",
            "price_min":"{{-product.price_min}}",
            "type":{{-product.type | json-}},
            "created_at":"{{-product.created_at | date: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" -}}",
            "published_at":"{{-product.published_at | date: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" -}}",
            "tags": {{-product.tags | json-}},
            "vendor": {{-product.vendor | json-}},
            "featured_image":"{{-product.featured_image-}}",
            "url":"{{-product.url-}}",
            "collections":{{-product.collections | map: 'id' | json-}},
            "compare_at_price":"{{-product.compare_at_price-}}",
            "compare_at_price_max": "{{-product.compare_at_price_max-}}",
            "compare_at_price_min": "{{-product.compare_at_price_min-}}",
            "price_varies": "{{-product.price_varies-}}",
            "compare_at_price_varies": "{{-product.compare_at_price_varies-}}",
            "images":[
            {%- for image in product.images -%}{%- unless forloop.first -%},
            {%- endunless -%}{"id":{{-image.id-}},
            "src":{{-image.src | json-}}}{%- endfor -%}],
            "first_available_variant":{"id":{{-product.selected_or_first_available_variant.id | times: 1 -}}},
            "available":{{-product.available | json-}},
            "options": {{-product.options | json-}},
            "variants":[
                {%- for variant in product.variants -%}{%- unless forloop.first -%},
                    {%- endunless -%}
                    {
                    "id":{{-variant.id-}},
                    "title":{{-variant.title | json}},
                    "name":{{-variant.name | json}},
                    "price":{{-variant.price-}},
                    "compare_at_price":{{-variant.compare_at_price | times: 1-}},
                    "available":{{-variant.available-}},
                    "sku":{{-variant.sku | json -}},
                    "weight":"{{-variant.weight-}}",
                    "weight_unit": "{{-variant.weight_unit-}}",
                    "inventory_quantity":{{-variant.inventory_quantity-}},
                    "option1":  {{-variant.option1| json-}},
                    "option2":  {{-variant.option2| json-}},
                    "option3":  {{-variant.option3| json-}},
                    "options":  {{-variant.options| json-}},
                    "selected": {%- if variant.selected -%}  {{-variant.selected-}} {%- elsif product.selected_or_first_available_variant.id == variant.id -%} true  {%- else -%} false {%- endif -%}
                    }
                {%- endfor -%}
            ]
        }
    {%- endfor -%}]
{%- endpaginate -%}

4

Save the file

Click Save in the code editor.

5

Go back to the app and open Theme integration

Return to Countdown Timer Bar Samita and open the Theme integration page, so the app picks up the change on this theme.

6

Test a collection condition

Open a countdown, set its condition to Collections and pick one, save it as Active, then visit a product in that collection on your live storefront. The countdown should appear.

Check a product outside the collection too — it should show nothing.

What the file actually does

It's a search template that returns product information as data rather than as a web page — including each product's collections, which isn't otherwise available to the app on the storefront. The app requests it in the background when it needs to check a collection condition; shoppers never see it.

Things worth knowing

• It's per theme. Change theme, or install a new one, and you add the file there too.

• The name has to be exact. samiCountdownsProductsJson, capitals included. A typo means the file is never found, with no error on the page.

• It reads, it doesn't write. The file doesn't alter your theme's behaviour or appearance.

Not comfortable editing theme code? The warning banner in the countdown builder has a Request setup button that opens a chat with support, who can add it for you. You can also contact support directly.

Next steps

• Display conditions

• Theme integration

• Countdown not showing

• Contact support