# AWX failing to pick up inventory Variables

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-failing-to-pick-up-inventory-variables/27481>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [May 8, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-failing-to-pick-up-inventory-variables/27481 "2018-05-08T11:08:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anthony.cleaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@anthony.cleaves](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anthony.cleaves)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-failing-to-pick-up-inventory-variables/27481/1 "2018-05-08T11:08:07Z")

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Hello, I am seeing an issue where inventory variables are not being picked up. Below is my tree but notice the “all” file has also been pasted into the inventory section inside AWX as group\_vars in my tree are not picked up at all.

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**Author:** ![anthony.cleaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@anthony.cleaves](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anthony.cleaves)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-failing-to-pick-up-inventory-variables/27481/2 "2018-05-08T11:09:36Z")

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- Custom\* Roles within /roles are not picked up, I have to symlink them back via playbooks/roles

- Roles within playbooks/roles, I am unable to un\*lock any vaults using the “Ansible Vault” option within AWX.

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**Author:** ![anthony.cleaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@anthony.cleaves](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anthony.cleaves)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-failing-to-pick-up-inventory-variables/27481/3 "2018-05-08T12:57:38Z")

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This seem to be because “items” is deprecated

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Jonathan\_King](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_King)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-failing-to-pick-up-inventory-variables/27481/4 "2018-05-29T15:20:51Z")

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I’m having exactly the same issues as anthony.

I’m having to layout everything entirely different from the way I’ve had it working for 2 years with ansible CLI

very frustrating

If I work out how to get the inventory and group\_vars to get read in, I’ll post back here.

Jon