Referencing Event Dispatcher: frustrating anomalies or my stupidity?

[docTheJones]

Hey friends,

I have my second night of mega frustration due to Event Dispatchers and referencing.

In my level i have basically 3 relevant elements:
A: a door/gate
B: a particle system (leafs)
C: an exit door/gate

What shall happen:

1. First door A is opened by player
2. this triggers immediately the leaf particle system to fire
3. as soon as door A is has completely opened (opening ends) the exit door shall start to open

My problem:

Now my problem is that this used to work until step 2 (particle system).
After I set up the exit door it did not want to work
and after recompiling the particle system that one stopped working suddenly.

I get this error and have no idea why:

Accessed None trying to read property firstDoorTypeVar from function...

What I did until now:

1. I set up the first event dispatcher and the call within the BP of door A.
   
   
   
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2. Then I added a variable “firstDoorTypeVar” in the particle system referencing the first door (Variable Types / Object Types / [the right door name]
3. I placed the variable as get in the event graph, dragged a wire from it, selected “Bind Event to firstDoorStartToOpen” and set up the rest like you can see here:
   
   
   
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4. Then I set up the exit door and hooked the binding just like before: