Shortcuts: Can not access submenu of inserted variables inside of newly created dictionaries on mac

While I was creating a shortcut using the dictionary function I encountered a bug. When creating a new dictionary to store the date and some other stuff I set a value to the current date variable. I went to change the date format to one I preferred I was unable to access the submenu to do so.

To figure out what was going on I did some testing and here is what I found:

  • You can't access the submenu of any inserted variable
  • This only happens in newly created dictionaries
  • You can be fix the dictionary by simply closing and opening the shortcut
  • This bug does not happen on Iphone

How to make this bug happen:

  1. Open any shortcut
  2. Create a new dictionary
  3. Add a variable in the value field

You can no longer access the sub menu to edit the variable.

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Albert
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

Shortcuts: Can not access submenu of inserted variables inside of newly created dictionaries on mac
 
 
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