Essential graphics groups messing up

[DavidHixonECG]

I'm building a somewhat complex comp intended to be a template for an instructional video on a game. It has a lot of expressions/scripting in it, and lots of Essential Graphics properties, each organized into groups and subgroups. For example, Player 1 > Avatar > Player 1 Avatar Scale.

There are 5 players, a dealer, and a HUD, all with EGP in organized folders. As I was building it, everything was working perfectly, but now that I finished it, and I go to show it to my coworkers/boss, suddenly 2 properties aren't in their subfolders. The more I dive into it to fix it, the worse it gets. Properties are just gone, changing the names to prevent repeated names (like "bet amount") breaks the property, I can't move properties into folders or else either nothing happens, or more properties move out of place, or more vanish or stop working.

I have no idea what's going on. I tried it on AE 2021 and 2022, latest version, and I get the same bugs. I spent days putting this together, everything was working perfectly, they praised me on it, and now that I need to actually implement it into the workflow, everything breaks!

Help! Even trying to rebuild it isn't working without starting from scratch!

[Rick Gerard]

No workflow details, no embedded screenshots, and no flowchart (always helpful with complex comps) equal no real idea where you are going wrong.

My first guess is that you have referred to a comp that is not embedded in the main comp. All nested comps used in a MOGRT must be embedded in the main comp for the links to work. If that's not it, we need a lot more information to be of much help.

[Roland Kahlenberg]

As Rick suggests, you need to provide more details - which type(s) of properties are having these disappearing issues? 

There are known issues with using Dropdown Menus (DDM) in the EGP. I'm not certain if this has been fixed. The issue arises if you place a DDM into the EGP and then go on to edit the DDM. Under such a condition, strange issues may arise. Are you having such an issue?