# Call a function on stage from within a child movieClip?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/call-a-function-on-stage-from-within-a-child-movieclip/276906
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 4, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/call-a-function-on-stage-from-within-a-child-movieclip/276906 "2008-12-04T21:38:21Z")
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### Author: ![wuzzi2ya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e79b87/32.png) [@wuzzi2ya](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wuzzi2ya)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/call-a-function-on-stage-from-within-a-child-movieclip/276906/1 "2008-12-04T21:38:21Z")

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Easy but not able to get it working. I have a clickable mc within another mc which is located on the main timeline. I need to call a function on the main timeline from within the clickable mc… this.parent.parent returns errors…

What am I doing wrong?

Any help?

Thanks…