Solved: "Requested parameter has no value" on a choice menu

[mediumpigeon]

Hi, this is my first time asking a question on the Lemma Soft Forums so please forgive me if I'm doing this wrong or in the wrong place.
Recently, a menu in my script that used to work completely fine (a normal choice menu, see below) now gives me an odd error when I try to run it and I can't seem to figure out why.

Here's the code:

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label choice1:
    scene Sca bedroom 1 with fade:
        xpos 620
        ypos 360
    show frame:
    menu choose1:
        "Not enough for a nap unfortunately, but enough to do something before I need to get ready. But what?"
        "Organise tapes" if nottapes:
            $persistent.tapes=True
            $nottapes = False
            $choiceone="Tapes"
            jump tapes
        "Prepare breakfast":
            $persistent.breakfast1=True
            $breakfast=True
            $choiceone="Breakfast"
            jump day1breakfast
        "Read":
            $persistent.read1=True
            $choiceone="Read"
            jump day1read
        "Get ready and leave early" if cafeundone:
            $persistent.leaveearly1=True
            $choiceone="Leave Early"
            jump day1early

I know the colon after "show frame" is out of place but for some reason my Ren'py doesn't like it when it's not there, for whatever reason. I tried deleting it anyway to see if the error stopped, and it didn't.
I originally thought it might be because I had defined my nottapes and cafeundone variables wrong (I know it's a roundabout way of saying them, I originally had the if statement saying "if tapes == False" but changed it in the hopes that maybe Ren'py would stop crying at me, but to no avail) but I defined them in a line of code that runs before the menu:

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label wakeup1:
    $ nottapes = True
    $ cafeundone = True

(I previously defined them under label start but Ren'py still wasn't happy so I thought maybe the problem was because they weren't defined in the same script file they were being used in so I moved them.)

Here's the full traceback error if it helps at all:

While running game code:
File "game/scripts/act_1/homescenes.rpy", line 60, in script
menu choose1:
Exception: Required parameter clues has no value.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "game/scripts/act_1/homescenes.rpy", line 60, in script
menu choose1:
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1628, in execute
choice = renpy.exports.menu(choices, self.set, args, kwargs, item_arguments)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\exports.py", line 990, in menu
rv = renpy.store.menu(new_items)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\exports.py", line 1226, in display_menu
rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse='menu', type=type, roll_forward=roll_forward)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\ui.py", line 297, in interact
rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 2702, in interact
repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 3094, in interact_core
root_widget.visit_all(lambda i : i.per_interact())
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 541, in visit_all
d.visit_all(callback, seen)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 541, in visit_all
d.visit_all(callback, seen)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 541, in visit_all
d.visit_all(callback, seen)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\screen.py", line 430, in visit_all
callback(self)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\core.py", line 3094, in <lambda>
root_widget.visit_all(lambda i : i.per_interact())
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\screen.py", line 440, in per_interact
self.update()
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\display\screen.py", line 625, in update
self.screen.function(**self.scope)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 158, in apply_arguments
return parameters.apply(args, kwargs, ignore_errors)
File "C:\Users\mediumpigeon\Downloads\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 122, in apply
raise Exception("Required parameter %s has no value." % name)
Exception: Required parameter clues has no value.

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.3.5.606
test_conviction 1.0
Fri Feb 05 22:00:47 2021

If anyone can figure out what's going wrong, I'd be super grateful I've been staring blankly at this code for ages and I have no idea why it's stopped work since earlier it was doing just fine (the only thing I've added since are more lines of text?)

[Remix]

Have you altered screen choice to require a parameter named clues?

[mediumpigeon]

Have you altered screen choice to require a parameter named clues?

Ahhhhh, I knew it would be something stupid - I ran a Find and Replace in a different project folder to replace the word "item" with "clues" but must have run it across all the project folders IK had open. Thank you so much!