Cannot move Child Objects to Folders [Outliner Regression]

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

Cannot move a child object from it’s parent to the root of the folder it’s parent is located in, or to another folder. On the second attempt, the “XXX is already assigned to XXX” hover message shows, as if the object had actually been moved.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

root
├── folder_1
└── folder_2
    └── sm_parent
        ├── sm_child1
        └── sm_child2
  • click and drag sm_child_1 to folder_1
  • will not move
  • try again, now hover message will show
  • repeat test with folder_2, same result

Expected Result

child object should move to folder

Observed Result

child object does not move to foler

Platform(s)

PC

Additional Notes

This was previously possible. The only workaround at the moment is to drag the child object to root then to a folder.

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To clarify: This is in the Outliner.

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Does it work after you reopen the project? [UEFN EDITOR] When I detach a child from the parent nothing happens

I don’t know why they didn’t want to create a ticket when I reported it

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Nope, tried resetting without success.

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tried to move again or verified the tree structure was updated? it shows the message because it moved but did not reflect in the outliner

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Oh wow, good catch! it is moving but just not showing the update in the Outliner. That kind of actually makes the issue a little worse!

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It’s just a visual bug but very annoying. Should be definitely put in Known Issues.

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@Punkcat We’re unable to reproduce this here. Could you get a video repro of this so we can figure out what’s going on?

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@Flak I already checked-in with them on Discord and validated the issue happening in 41.00, but we were not able to reproduce in newer builds. So consider the case closed.

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FORT-1114286 has been ‘Closed’. We’re unable to reproduce this issue.