# Instance names

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/instance-names/241062>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 9, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/instance-names/241062 "2007-10-09T19:43:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![templar2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@templar2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/templar2)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/instance-names/241062/1 "2007-10-09T19:43:18Z")

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(I would put Flash CS3 in the title if I could ☹ )

if you call an object several times in the timeline (i.e. in several keyframes), is it really required that you give each an instance name? Is there a way to apply a instance name to the object across the clip?

also… is this proper syntax? It doesn’t appear to be working  
([“contentline” + \_root.contentopen]).gotoAndPlay(“s1”);

it works in this…  
gotoAndPlay([“content” + \_root.contentopen + “-open”]);