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If I go to radar view and click on the blueprint book in my hotbar, the blueprint book opens normally. However, when I left click on a blueprint inside the book nothing happens. This is different than if I was in player view and would do the same as then the blueprint would get selected and it would offer for you to build it.

This is especially bothersome when I zoom in to the player instead of leaving radar mode and the view of having opened the blueprint book is very similar to the view in player mode (images of both views here). As I don't pay attention to the left side of the menu, I often find myself failing to select a blueprint and then remembering the problem, closing the blueprint book, closing radar view and then opening the blueprint book and navigating to the blueprint again.

This happens ever time as it is not really a bug, just an inconsistency of menus.

Hi, looking at your description I cant really reproduce this behavior.
No matter if I'm in remote view or in character view, the behavior of the blueprints or blueprint books in the Hotbar stays the same.
If I right-click a blueprint book in the Hotbar it opens the book and I can select a blueprint with left click
if I left-click a blueprint in the hotbar it allows me to build it normally.

If you interact with the bp in the book directly in remote view once it will work, if you haven't yet then opening the book via quickbar will not let you interact with the bps (2.0.23).

I came here to suggest the same. For me, the problem is (in own words):

1. Open remote view.
2. Open blueprint book from the quickbar.
3. Left-Click on blueprint within the book to place it somewhere -> Nothing happens.

I know two workarounds for now:

Workaround 1

1. Select the blueprint from the book.
2. Then open remote view.
3. Place it somewhere.

This is really annoying when building a lot of different blueprints from a book since you have to leave the remote view every time and then navigate back to the place that you are building.

Workaround 2

1. Open remote view.
2. Open blueprint book from the quickbar.
3. Right-Click on blueprint to open it and then click "Copy the blueprint". The copy can now be placed on the map.

This is more suitable but of course more complicated then left clicking (if it were possible).