Do Remote Loads Work in Design Studies?

I trying to run a design study and use a remote load as a variable. In the variable dialog, the software let's me define the variable and it says linked but if I run the study it doesn't use the load at all. When I go back into the variable definition it no longer says linked. I don't get it. If it's not a remote load and I just use a plain old force, it seems to work fine. Any ideas?

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