Change Tracking: No access to parent table after delete.

Synopsis: 

I’m using Change Tracking to track changes in a Child table.  I’d like to group them by a Parent key, and keep track of one MAX value. Works great, except for deletes. 

Details:

Two tables,  

Categories:

               CategoryID, int      (PK)

               Name, varchar()

StoreItems:

               StoreItemID, int    (PK)

               CategoryID, int      (FK)

               Name, varchar()

The number of StoreItems per Category is rather small, and I want clients to just grab the ENTIRE list any time it detects ANY change to StoreItems assigned to a Category (insert, update or delete).

I have Change Tracking turned on for StoreItems. 

The following query works great:

SELECTS.CategoryID,MAX(c.SYS_CHANGE_VERSION)asMaxChangeNum

      FROMStoreItemsASS

CROSSAPPLYCHANGETABLE

   (VERSIONStoreItems,(StoreItemID),(S.StoreItemID))ASc

WHERES.CategoryID= 1

GROUPBYS.CategoryID

This yields:

CategoryID         MaxChangeNum

1                            72

This gives me the highest Change number for all StoreItems changed by Category, which each client could keep track of, but the problem is, it doesn’t include deleted records. 

When I use CHANGETABLE(CHANGES…) , I can see the deleted records, but I no longer have the Category they were in.  All it keeps is StoreItemID.

I tried a DELETE trigger, where I still have access to the CategoryID, but unfortunately the CHANGETABLE updates have not occurred yet.

Any suggestions on how to include deletes when tracking StoreItems changes BY Category?