# Trouble activating a matinee through a widget

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/trouble-activating-a-matinee-through-a-widget/33807>\
**Category:** Blueprint\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [June 29, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/trouble-activating-a-matinee-through-a-widget/33807 "2015-06-29T11:14:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Filly\_The\_Owl](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Filly\_The\_Owl](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Filly_The_Owl)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/trouble-activating-a-matinee-through-a-widget/33807/1 "2015-06-29T11:14:43Z")

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I have a running matinee scene and a functional widget menu, now i want one of the widget buttons to activate the matinee scene.  
Problem is i cant cast the matinee scene into the widget… how do i get those communicate?

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**Author:** ![Filly\_The\_Owl](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Filly\_The\_Owl](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Filly_The_Owl)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/trouble-activating-a-matinee-through-a-widget/33807/2 "2015-06-30T14:09:57Z")

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Isnt it possible O.o  
The wiki says nothing about :c

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**Author:** ![Mhousse1247](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Mhousse1247](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Mhousse1247)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/trouble-activating-a-matinee-through-a-widget/33807/3 "2015-06-30T14:28:11Z")

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here are many ways to do that , here is two

First one :

 ![test5.PNG](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/5/d/1/5d1f4edd0e79121e5fc444ef78c1bca88cac32ec.png)

Second one:

 ![test6.PNG](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/6/9/c/69c39aadc0aeb45d1b5966ab9f04dd578b1f1394.png)

 ![test7.PNG](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/b/9bf6de3f1475bbe1ee33884e38282be421cf334f.png)

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**Author:** ![Filly\_The\_Owl](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Filly\_The\_Owl](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Filly_The_Owl)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 6:07pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/trouble-activating-a-matinee-through-a-widget/33807/4 "2015-06-30T18:07:32Z")

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Dowww amazin!!! I have to try this! :3 thx!

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**Author:** ![Filly\_The\_Owl](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Filly\_The\_Owl](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Filly_The_Owl)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/trouble-activating-a-matinee-through-a-widget/33807/5 "2015-06-30T18:59:11Z")

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With the help of this

> **[A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/a-new-community-hosted-unreal-engine-wiki/141494)**
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> After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline. These resources now live on a new community-run Unreal Engine Community Wiki — ue4community.wiki! You will be able to find content from the official...

And your help Mhouse i managed to get it done! Im really thankfully 🙂 good day!