Is It possible to preload instances into a certain group?

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I have a group in my main scene called minimap_objects, and objects that are in that group show up on my mini map. If I try to preload the scene in code with a spawner it spawns the object , but not in the group, but if I drag the tscn file to my main file it shows up in the group. Any ideas?

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First of all (pre)loading does not produce a Node, instance() does.
Second, Groups are no more than simple string tags, so they are simply loaded, not "into group".
Moreover, Groups are managed by SceneTree, so node has be added to a tree, for a Group feature to work.

You can always check which nodes in tree belongs to a certain group with

var myGroupNodes = get_tree().get_nodes_in_group ("minimap_objects")
print(myGroupNodes)
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