# Assigning variable on different timeline

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-variable-on-different-timeline/322028>\
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**Created:** [May 7, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-variable-on-different-timeline/322028 "2011-05-07T20:02:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlightRisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@FlightRisk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlightRisk)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assigning-variable-on-different-timeline/322028/1 "2011-05-07T20:02:02Z")

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I’m using Flash CS4 Professional. I’m new to Flash, taking an on-line college class, and we 've gotten to ActionScript. The entire second page of ‘web site’ is a movieclip. The mc includes 2 input text boxes and a button. Clicking the button is supposed to take the movie to page 3, a frame on the main timeline. Finally got that to work with ‘with (\_root) gotoAndPlay (“frame label”)’. Page 3 contains 2 dynamic text boxes and I’ve tried several versions of \_root and \_parent dot syntax paths and tried ‘with (\_root)’ but I cannot get values from the input boxes in the movieclip to show up in the dynamic boxes on the main timeline.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.