[Verse Fields] Verse fields from parent widget not reflected properly

Summary

[Verse Fields] Verse fields from a parent widget will not show until you manually add a verse field to a child widget

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

UI/Tools

Steps to Reproduce

  • Create a parent widget (WBP_Parent)
  • Add some verse field (Name:message)
  • Create a new widget (WBP_Child)
  • Reparent it to WBP_Parent (File → Reparent Blueprint)
  • Open the Variables tab
  • Observe
  • On WBP_Child, create a new variable
  • Observe

Expected Result

The Variables tab should reflect all verse fields from our parent widget WBP_Parent.

Observed Result

None of the verse field from our parent widget are reflected into the Variables tab UNTIL we manually create one variable first.

Platform(s)

Windows 11 - 39.20-CL-49564179

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Additional Notes

Note that changing the Attributes.Category will also not reflect variables until you create one variable with the same category.

FORT-1040865 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.