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Larry Dietz asked

Is it possible to unlock multiple containers at the same time.

I am working on a game, where the users can obtain a chest that contains a single items from a drop table. They user could potentially end up with hundreds of these chests before deciding to open them, Possibly even more.

Is there a way to tell the system to open say 200 of these in a single call, to obtain 200 items from the drop table?

I don't like the idea of having to send potentially hundreds of calls to unlock the containers 1 by 1.

Or is there a better way to accomplish this, than with containers?

**EDIT** One alternative I just thought of, but also do not know if it is possible, would be to programmatically, within cloudscript, create a bundle with the appropriate number of droptable items, and grant that bundle to the player, while at the same time, revoking the container items. Is this a possibility? I haven't found any references to creating bundles in this fashion.

Thanks,

-Larry

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Actually, your alternative is entirely possible, and recommended for your scenario. All you would have to do is get the droptable info for the container (Player Item Management - Get Random Result Tables - REST API (PlayFab Server) | Microsoft Docs), and use that to compute what to give the player, using the API call to update the number of item uses (Player Item Management - Modify Item Uses - REST API (PlayFab Server) | Microsoft Docs).

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Larry Dietz avatar image Larry Dietz commented ·

Thank you for this! I will give it a shot and see if I can get it working this way.

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Larry Dietz avatar image Larry Dietz commented ·

Brendan, One additional question. From within cloudscript, how do I get the ItemInstanceID of a newly added item, from the return results of GrantItemsToUser. Nothing I have tried is working.

Here is where I am at... The first case below results in "Message": "InstanceID: undefined"

The 2nd case results in Cannot read property 'ItemInstanceId' of undefined

var NewItem = server.GrantItemsToUser({
 "PlayFabId": currentPlayerId,
 ItemIds
 });
 log.info("InstanceID: " + NewItem.ItemInstanceId);

also tried...

var NewItem = server.GrantItemsToUser({
  "PlayFabId": currentPlayerId,
  ItemIds
  });
  log.info("InstanceID: " + NewItem[0].ItemInstanceId);

**EDIT**

Disregard this. I finally figured it out :) It appears to be working as I want it to now.

Thanks for your help on this!!

-Larry

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