Turn Sources into Cubes
A transform reads a Source and builds from it. For a product, that means a cube with a card for the Feed and detail behind it — images, description, the add-to-cart control, and whatever else you asked for.
This is the stage that decides what your storefront looks like.
You choose what gets built
Section titled “You choose what gets built”Before a transform runs, you get choices: which parts of the Source become content, and how they are presented. The options are on screen when you run one, and they differ by what you are transforming — a product offers different choices than a Cevoid post.
For a WordPress post or page, a Preview under the choices lists the blocks the transform would create, in order, and updates as you change the choices. When the cube already exists, each block is marked New, Update, or Kept, edited — a block you changed, which the transform leaves as it is. Nothing changes until you run the transform.
One Source or many
Section titled “One Source or many”You can transform a single Source, or select many and transform them together with the same choices. Building a whole catalogue is the second kind — you set the options once and apply them across everything. In the Sources list you can select everything that matches your filters, not only the rows on the page.
A transform keeps going in the background, so you can leave the page. Follow it on Transform logs.
To reuse the same choices every time, save them under Settings → Transforms. A single run can still override them.
If your Feed looks flat
Section titled “If your Feed looks flat”This is the most common thing worth changing, and it is worth knowing about before you decide your storefront is finished.
Product photography is usually shot on plain white. That works in a grid, where images are small and consistency matters. Full-screen, in a feed, it reads as a catalogue — flat, and easy to swipe past.
If that is what you are seeing, change which image leads. Most product galleries have a lifestyle shot further down — a photograph with a setting and some atmosphere — and that image almost always makes a better Feed card than the cut-out on white.
You can also have a transform add a second card using another image, so the lifestyle shot appears alongside the plain one rather than instead of it. That second card gets a brief product summary instead of the full description.
Other things worth knowing you can change
Section titled “Other things worth knowing you can change”Without going through every option:
- Whether the product’s images come across as a gallery.
- Whether the product description comes across.
- Whether selected Shopify metafields — editorial copy, feature lists, images, related products, and similar — are mapped into accordion, product features, image, or relation blocks. Text metafields use the translation you wrote in Shopify for the language a shopper is viewing. If that translation is missing, or the metafield is not available on the storefront, Rubikc uses the store’s main language.
- Whether a prompt to buy is added at the end of the detail.
- How images are fitted to the screen — filling it, or shown whole.
For an approved Cevoid post, the first block is its media. The transform can also add the caption and creator, accessibility copy, and matching product promotions.
Running a transform again
Section titled “Running a transform again”Use Transform again on a transformed Source in Sources, or tick several and choose Transform. Running a transform again updates the cube from the current Source. Generated blocks you have not edited are brought up to date. A block the Source no longer includes, such as a video that was removed, is taken off the cube when the run finishes. A run that fails removes nothing.
The Publish step decides whether that update goes live. With it on, the new content is published. With it off, it stays a draft and what customers already see stays up until you publish. See Make changes live.
Edits you made by hand stay unless you turn that off. See Keeping your content up to date.
If the result is not what you wanted
Section titled “If the result is not what you wanted”Transform again with different choices. It is not a one-shot operation. Transform logs shows what a run did, which steps were off, and which images could not be copied.
For a whole category of cubes that came out wrong in the same way, changing the options and re-running is much faster than editing them one at a time.