Hi devs i have a issue where i am trying to use (set position in viewport) node but is not working i have test on unreal engine 5.0 and the same pice of code works fine here is the example
If the element / control / widget is within a container, you might have issues moving it; because the container forbids it from moving.
Thanks for the response, the widget i am trying to change the position is a border with a horizontal box with items inside, so to controll the position of widget is should wrap with a canvas ? so i can use set position in the viewport ? thanks.
Yes something like that! Let me know if you ended up solving the issue! 
Thanks for the help i have found the solution.
Still don’t explain why that set view port node is not working properly but doing so research i have found a much better way to do this that follow the screen size.
One more thing for those who are tring to do the same i am leaving the widget that i creating as a reference because the offset is very important to get right to, the offset is mark by the red circle
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Hi! I can confirm. We have just ported our project from 5.0 to 5.1. We narrowed down when our movable widgets stopped working. It is after porting to 5.1.
I looked into Set Position in Viewport function in C++, and indeed - it has changed a lot from 5.0 to 5.1.
Basically, this function is unusable now. Completely broken.
I have a widget NOT in container. Just created and Add To Viewport called on it. This method works perfectly on UE 5.0 and before. 5.1 clearly broke it.
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Yes the same here, unfortunately i way i could fix that issue is to create a widget with an empty canvas add my widget target as a children them based in the slot change the position.
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Yeah I did very similar thing, now my movable stuff is on empty canvas and I am moving the slot, which works just as good for my use case. However the issue is still there, and the function should be fixed. I’ve created a bug report for this one.
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+1 Also broke our placed/draggable widgets in our game after moving from 5.0 to 5.1
Our c++ code however is not broken:
CanvasSlot->SetPosition(TargetLocation);
Salut, en attendant moi j’utilise “Set render Translation” pour le repositioner correctement
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This works for me in 5.1, in this case from world position to screen space, but it might help someone out.
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Thanks ^^ you really helped a somebody
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Sadly still broken in 5.3.2. Really disappointing since I am trying to align things based on the size (i.e. pixel count) of the viewport, so this node is the bottleneck for me since I want to set positions based on pixels, not relative to canvas slots or positions in designer.
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