# Loading External Movie Message Board Help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-movie-message-board-help/174686>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 8, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-movie-message-board-help/174686 "2006-01-08T04:20:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![cayuseman21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@cayuseman21](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cayuseman21)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-movie-message-board-help/174686/1 "2006-01-08T04:20:50Z")

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I’ve been working on this site: [http://www.operationasterisk.org/1](http://www.operationasterisk.org/1) and I can’t get the message board to work. It seems to work when I look at the .swf file by itself:

[http://www.operationasterisk.org/1/messages.swf](http://www.operationasterisk.org/1/messages.swf)

I’m thinking that it has something to do with the way I’m loading the external movie:

**this.onRelease = function(){  
\_root.main.loadMovie(“messages.swf”);**

Should I try assigning the external movie to a new layer? I don’t know what to do. Or if anybody knows where to find a good tutorial on messageboards in flash 8 or loading external movies in flash 8 that would be great.

Thanks,  
Max