# Activate external link

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/activate-external-link/93345>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 29, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/activate-external-link/93345 "2003-10-29T16:57:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![rhombusleech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@rhombusleech](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rhombusleech)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/activate-external-link/93345/1 "2003-10-29T16:57:15Z")

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This is probably in the wrong forum, so feel free to move it please…

Here’s the situation. I have a flash movie that has three “steps” that the user must click through. The flash is embedded on an html page that contains a “next” link. I don’t want the link to become active (i.e. they can’t click next) until the user has clicked through all three steps in the flash movie. Is there a way to do this by maybe sending a variable from flash to a javascript telling it to activate the “next” link?