Variable scope in Modals

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Hi All,
Pretty new to Retool and just found Modals which are great for what I want to do. Originally I just have hidden containers that I showed on a button click. This then shows some input fields and a submit button. In a transformer I was able to use input1.value to build my API calls no problem. I've now moved that hidden container into a Modal but when I submit I see that the input value is passed as null into the transformer. The Modal looks like this:

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Very simple. When I do something similar, but the "Create" button instead triggers a query to retool database the values are passed just fine. Surely missing something simple here.

Thanks,
Peter.

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Looks like this was some bug, after closing and reopening the edit screen it's started working.

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Strange behavior, but glad to see you're no longer having this issue. Please let us know if this issue persists in anyway!