articleCreate

Creates an Article. Articles are content pieces that include a title, body text, and author information.

Use it in a workflow

Add a step and choose the Shopify connector.
Pick the articleCreate action (under Article).
Fill in the fields below, then reference the result from later steps as {{articlecreate.response.data}}.

Query

This is the mutation the action sends by default. Edit it in the step's Query field to change which fields come back.

graphql

mutation ArticleCreate($article: ArticleCreateInput!, $blog: ArticleBlogInput) {
  articleCreate(article: $article, blog: $blog) {
    article {
      author {
        name
      }
      blog {
        commentPolicy
        createdAt
        feed
        handle
        id
        tags
        templateSuffix
        title
        updatedAt
      }
      body
      createdAt
      defaultCursor
      handle
      id
      image {
        altText
        height
        id
        originalSrc
        src
        thumbhash
        width
      }
      isPublished
      publishedAt
      summary
      tags
      templateSuffix
      title
      updatedAt
    }
    userErrors {
      code
      field
      message
    }
  }
}

Variables

Pass these as a JSON object in the step's Variables field.

articleobjectrequired

The properties of the new article.

blogIdstring

handlestring

bodystring

summarystring

isPublishedboolean

publishDatestring

templateSuffixstring

metafieldsarray<object>5 fields

tagsarray<string>

imageobject2 fields

titlestringrequired

authorobjectrequired2 fields

blogobject

The properties of the new blog.

titlestringrequired

json

{
  "article": {
    "title": "string",
    "author": {
      "name": "string",
      "userId": "string"
    },
    "blogId": "string",
    "handle": "string",
    "body": "string",
    "summary": "string",
    "isPublished": false,
    "publishDate": "string",
    "templateSuffix": "string",
    "metafields": [
      {
        "id": "string",
        "namespace": "string",
        "key": "string",
        "value": "string",
        "type": "string"
      }
    ],
    "tags": [
      "string"
    ],
    "image": {
      "altText": "string",
      "url": "string"
    }
  },
  "blog": {
    "title": "string"
  }
}

Response

Read the result with {{articlecreate.response.data.data.articleCreate}}. If the API returns errors, the step fails and they are at {{articlecreate.response.data.errors}}.

articleobject

authorobject1 fields

blogobject9 fields

bodystring

createdAtstring

defaultCursorstring

handlestring

idstring

imageobject7 fields

isPublishedboolean

publishedAtstring

summarystring

tagsarray<object>

templateSuffixstring

titlestring

updatedAtstring

userErrorsarray<object>

codeobject

fieldobject

messageobject

Need more? See the Shopify guide for connection setup and behaviour shared by every action.

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