# Why arent Subobject references working in UMG?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-arent-subobject-references-working-in-umg/326651>\
**Category:** UI\
**Tags:** bind, unreal-engine, Widget, question, UMG\
**Created:** [July 27, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-arent-subobject-references-working-in-umg/326651 "2015-07-27T00:33:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![icannotfly](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@icannotfly](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/icannotfly)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-arent-subobject-references-working-in-umg/326651/1 "2015-07-27T00:33:07Z")

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I’m following along with the 4.8 UMG Inventory tutorial on the youtube channel, and I’m stuck on [the third part](https://youtu.be/4NcpKCafZgU?t=847). I’m trying to bind the percentage of a progress bar to a float coming from C++. When doing it through a normal bind, everything works just fine, but when trying to use a subobject reference as in the video, it does not work. I don’t get any error messages or compile warnings, it just fails.

Illustrated: [http://i.imgur.com/AOSGBvX.png](http://i.imgur.com/AOSGBvX.png)

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**Author:** ![skeleton60](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@skeleton60](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/skeleton60)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-arent-subobject-references-working-in-umg/326651/2 "2016-09-12T15:44:21Z")

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i have the same problem, it work fine if i create a binding myself like you

but i want to do it faster and use my subobject reference, and when i use it, it dont work anymore… no error at all. Just nothing.

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_cca4b0a9](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_cca4b0a9](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_cca4b0a9)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-arent-subobject-references-working-in-umg/326651/3 "2016-12-09T09:26:26Z")

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Anyones gonna say anything about this? 4.13.2