# Generate Custom Text on trace Interactable Objects with Text Binding Widget

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/generate-custom-text-on-trace-interactable-objects-with-text-binding-widget/488254>\
**Category:** Editor Scripting\
**Tags:** Variable, interactive-objects, unreal-engine, Widget, question\
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/generate-custom-text-on-trace-interactable-objects-with-text-binding-widget/488254 "2021-08-31T23:32:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![darwinner999](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/darwinner999/32/88708_2.png) [@darwinner999](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/darwinner999)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/generate-custom-text-on-trace-interactable-objects-with-text-binding-widget/488254/1 "2021-08-31T23:32:26Z")

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How can I modify my BP\_Master Interactable Object to give it an editable text field in the details panel? The children of this would inherit this editable text field.

From here, I would like to create a widget with a text binding that prints whatever is inside of the editable text field.

\*\*My interaction system is set up with First Person Story Adventure Template - Interaction event on trace if tagged “Interactable” at the correct distance from the player.

The screenshots below are a failed attempt to generate the text using a public text variable inside the Master Interactable Object.

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**Author:** ![darwinner999](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/darwinner999/32/88708_2.png) [@darwinner999](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/darwinner999)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/generate-custom-text-on-trace-interactable-objects-with-text-binding-widget/488254/2 "2021-08-31T23:46:43Z")

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Widget appears, but fails to create custom text.

 ![347786-06-widget-appears-but-text-binding-fails.jpg](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/c/5/b/c5b994cae984debc33b6fbe6073aadb5c1905e06.jpeg)