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Custom variables not working on child pipelines

Summary

A customer has noticed that custom variables do not work in child pipelines when they are set on a manual pipeline execution.

Steps to reproduce

Going to CI/CD > Pipelines > Run Pipeline, but they do work when set in the project’s CI/CD variables setting.

What is the current bug behavior?

The child pipeline is not getting the variables when a pipeline is manually executed.

What is the expected correct behavior?

The child pipeline receives the custom variable.

Possible fixes

Premium customer: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/158234 (internal only)