# gotoAndPlay in parent movie?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay-in-parent-movie/162621
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 14, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay-in-parent-movie/162621 "2005-09-14T20:50:34Z")
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### Author: ![ekitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ekitel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ekitel)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay-in-parent-movie/162621/1 "2005-09-14T20:50:34Z")

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I just can’t figure out how to set the path here, I have a button in an external .swf that is loaded into my main movie, I want the button to move the main movie timeline to a frame that I have labeled “tools”

on (release) {  
gotoAndPlay("\_root.tools");  
}

that doesn’t work, I’ve also tried \_parent, with and without quotation marks

thanks in advance for any advice