# Help! Previous Activities Broken (RESOLVED) **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** graph\ **Created:** [November 3, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/help-previous-activities-broken-resolved/8896 "2026-11-03T14:38:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scott\_Walker](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/scott_walker/32/3100_2.png) [@Scott\_Walker](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Scott_Walker)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/help-previous-activities-broken-resolved/8896/1 "2026-11-03T14:38:11Z")
UPDATE: Amplify engineers have now resolved this issue. Thanks @Daniel_Grubbs for your advise on a temporary work-around (and for reminding me that there is a seperate “Bug Reports” page). It would appear another change has been made that has created issues with many of my custom activities. Here is an example of a basic, repeated practice assignment I gave my students a few weeks ago: > [Employment Compensation Basics (AFA '26-'27) • Activity by Scott Walker](https://classroom.amplify.com/activity/6ac5159d35a6dbe9ba763717?utm_campaign=share&utm_content=activity) It is designed to calculate the student’s score in a hidden graph on screen 1 and then display that score in the note at the top of the screen. It was working as intended until sometime in the last week. Now the note does not display the called upon number correctly - the student score just shows a blank space. This is impacting numerous activities I have previously designed and assigned. With some troubleshooting I discovered that if I remove the `hidden: true` characteristic from the graph, the student score appears as intended. In the troubleshooting activity below it is evident that a number from the not-hidden graph on screen 1 is displaying properly. The number from the hidden graph on screen 2 will not display in the note, whether that number is pulled from the graph directly or first defined in the CL of the graph and then called upon as script. This would seem to indicate that numbers from hidden graphs are not being displayed properly in notes. > [https://classroom.amplify.com/activity/6ae9dfed84b2cb63a0e9ec95?utm\_campaign=share&utm\_content=activity](https://classroom.amplify.com/activity/6ae9dfed84b2cb63a0e9ec95?utm_campaign=share&utm_content=activity) However, you’ll notice that on screens 2-5 of [the first activity](https://classroom.amplify.com/activity/6ae8d05ac6d7f964306c9c49?utm_campaign=share&utm_content=activity) I posted, that numerous values from hidden graphs ARE displaying in notes as intended. I have no idea why those numbers are displaying as they should but the score on screen 1 is suddenly blank… Any ideas on what is going on? How do I go back and make the student scores on activities already assigned display as they were a week or so ago? How do I ensure in the future that calling on a number or variable from a hidden graph will properly display in a note? Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Grubbs](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/daniel_grubbs/32/719_2.png) [@Daniel\_Grubbs](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Daniel_Grubbs)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/help-previous-activities-broken-resolved/8896/2 "2026-11-03T15:13:13Z")
We also recently discovered this building some curriculum. In the meantime, we discovered you _can_ bypass it. 1. Set variables to use for bounds in the graph. We use `x_{min}`, `x_{max}`, `y_{min}`, and `y_{max}`. 2. Define bounds in the CL using those variables (hardcoded values in CL does not work). `bounds: makeBounds(`x_{min}`, `x_{max}`, `y_{min}`, `y_{max}`)` It was an update to improve dashboard speed/functionality, I believe. Hopefully it gets fixed soon, but this does work in the meantime. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Walker](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/scott_walker/32/3100_2.png) [@Scott\_Walker](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Scott_Walker)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/help-previous-activities-broken-resolved/8896/3 "2026-11-03T16:53:56Z")
Thanks, Daniel. For the activities that have already been assigned and worked on, I guess the only thing to do is wait for a fix to whatever problem was created..? Just FYI, I was able to discover at least one other workaround. It appears that defining _any_ condition for the note to be hidden, so long as that condition is tied to the graph component from which you are calling a number, allows the note to display the desired number correctly. For example, you know that with n=1 defined in graphA and graphA set to be `hidden: true`, a note with CL definition `n = graphA.number(`n`)`will not properly display variable {n} properly. However, if in the note CL I also add `hidden: not(graphA.number(`n`) = 1)`, then the note does display variable ${n}. I checked that the hidden condition of the note does not necessarily need to use the same variable as the one you want to display in the note, but it does have to use _some_ variable in the graph component that contains the variable being displayed in the note. Maybe that adds one more bit of information in determining/fixing the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Grubbs](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/daniel_grubbs/32/719_2.png) [@Daniel\_Grubbs](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Daniel_Grubbs)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/help-previous-activities-broken-resolved/8896/4 "2026-11-03T20:09:54Z")
I know an engineer has a fix in mind. That probably works because they were trying to remove “unnecessary” graphs to improve performance, and if they’re linked to something that _is_ displayed, it makes it “necessary”. Know that they are working on this one currently. In the future, this is they type of post to put in the “Bug Reports” category. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/desmos/original/2X/f/f5bd144684474e9a2f333002cde9840e52c5dbd3.png) [@system](https://cl.desmos.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2026, 8:10pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/help-previous-activities-broken-resolved/8896/5 "2026-11-05T20:10:28Z")
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