Editing default properties in UMG user widgets do not propagate to child classes or instances.

[Kinali_JasonC]

Making this post for others encountering issues with the UMG editor + user widget properties (see the link below). Also for the bug tracker which doesn’t look like it checks Discussion posts, only Question posts.

Problem and Workarounds

Editing default properties in UMG user widgets do not propagate to child classes or instances.

When updating an user widget blueprint property, it’s instances in another user widget OR child classes are not updated. Posting this publically to help others that encounter this issue. I’ll list down some workarounds below, but in terms of working and reusing widgets in any capacity this needs to be fixed. If you’re working with widgets I highly recommend reading through this so you don’t “corrupt” your widgets. Issue This issue equally affects both inheriting a user widget through blueprin…

Bug

UE-185003

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