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Catalog Versions in inventory

If a catalog version has been deleted, the Game Manager links to the catalog item stop working, even if an updated version of a catalog has the same itemId in it. (repro - create a copy of a catalog, grant an item from that catalog, delete that catalog, go to the inventory and click on the item's links)

Since catalog versioning requires catalogs to be deleted, this is unwanted/unexpected behaviour.

(you can see this behaviour on 9A7AE96546CEE8C4 in 6263)

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brendan answered

Yes, this is definitely an issue, and I've got a bug open on it. Long story short, we designed the system such that a title would use a single catalog for all items (sub-grouping them using stores). But since a number of titles are using multiple catalog versions as all "active" at once (subdividing items across them), we had to accommodate that, and so the limit of inventory items in the catalog became across all catalogs. This creates an issue where developers need to delete catalog versions in order to add new ones, invalidating catalog version info on item instances. That doesn't break the item instance itself in any way, but it does make the link info unusable. We'll be re-examining the catalog/inventory model as part of an update later this year, to see about simplifying this.

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