Your system should include the short suit trial bids, in which case you should make such bid in ♦ in spite of the ♦ opening. In my system -which includes both short and long trial bids as well as mere invitations-, the bid would be 2♠ here, and the sequence would be:
1♦ – 1♥ 2♣
2♥ – 2♠ – 2♠: undetermined short suit trial bid
2N – 3♦ – 2!N: no short suit worth mentioning 3♦: ♦ short suit trial bid
3♠ – 4♥. 3♠: game force, ♠ control.
In case your system does not include short suit trial bids, you are in an emergency situation: time to include it, if necessary at the cost of no long suit trial bids. Meanwhile, best you can do is to make an invitation with a 3♥ bid, unless this shows a preempt and you will then use whatever trial bid you have, for instance a long suit trial bid in ♠.
Otherwise, by all means make a short suit trial bid in ♦, the way your system enables you to do it.
Bottom line: You have at least 3 tricks, and 4♥ are awaiting you if partner has no wasted values in ♦ and a quick stopper in ♠, or 3N if partner has ♦ and ♠ tricks.
There were 4♥ or 5♥ for the take. Your partner’s hand:
♠AKQ9 ♥A987 ♦J73 ♣32.
BBO’s robot passed on 2♥, but she has the excuse of a bad programmer. On a ♠ lead, 11 tricks were made.
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