Cannot disable stock checking in shopping portlet

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.X EE, 6.2.X EE, 7.0.0 M3
• Fix Version/s: 6.2.3 CE GA4, 6.2.X EE, 7.0.0 M2
• Component/s: Util, Util > Shopping
• Labels:
  • QA-TP
  • liferay-fixpack-portal-40-6210
• Branch Version/s:
  6.2.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Story Points: 7
• Fix Priority: 2
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/20630

DESCRIPTION
Cannot disable stock checking. This is needed when using a large number of fields in Shopping portlet. Items that can be greatly customized (millions of combinations of options) or are made to order, cannot have their stock entered manually in any reasonable amount of time.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Add a shopping portlet to a page
2. Create an item in the shopping portlet

Expected
Option to disable stock checking.
Actual
Must always enter in stock for every permutation.

To see why we are considering this a bug consider the following situation:
Item has 7 fields each with 7 options someone would need to enter in 7^7 stock quantities (one for each combination of those fields / values) that's 823,543 values for one item. If this is something that is made when ordered positive values for all of these would need to be entered.