Get first node in group always returns Null

[some_coder]

Godot Version

4.4

Question

I have put a menu into a group called “Menu” and am trying to get it via
@onready var menu = get_tree().get_first_node_in_group("Menu")

But that only returns Null and I have no idea why.

Here are some screenshots of the node, as far as I can tell it has the right group name and there is no other node in the group.

when I access the size of the group I get a 0 returned, so somehow the node wasn’t added to the group. Am I doing something wrong? Feel like I am going crazy

[paintsimmon]

What node is the script that needs to find the menu on? onready only is evaluated when that node is ready, not necessarily when the menu is also ready.

[some_coder]

ahhhh I forgot to add the scene to the scene tree, now I feel silly

thank you so much