the new retarget UI does not maintain clip selection

Development Character & Animation
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In previous retargeter version we could select our assets in the content browser, right click, retarget, and it would retarget the current selection, taking advantage of neatly organized folders.

we would like the same functionality as before, to retarget the animations I have selected without having to repeat select everything everytime I open the retargeter UI

since UE5.4, we noticed that the updated retargeter UI shows ALL the assets, including assets not even in the same folder, and it is not organized in any way. There is no easy way of filtering by folder other than painstakingly typing out file path in the search bar.

I thought 5.6 would add the function maintain content browser selection, however after testing in the latest version, the issue seems to be still there.

attached video shows the issue.

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Steps to Reproduce
select the anim clips you want to retarget in the content browser

right click -> retarget animations -> opens the retargeter UI

select the target char and IK retargeter asset

notice that it requires you to reselect the anim clips, does not maintain the selection I made in the content browser

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Hi, this is a known issue that is still present unfortunately. We have a related JIRA ticket that you can track the status of here. Currently, that’s targeted to be fixed in the 5.7 release, but it’s still possible that it could slip due to other commitments. I’ll reiterate this with the dev team to make sure that they are still aware of the issue and the fact that the workaround is painful.