# Navigation:help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigation-help/28903>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 20, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigation-help/28903 "2003-08-20T00:26:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![teddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/da6949/32.png) [@teddy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/teddy)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigation-help/28903/1 "2003-08-20T00:26:36Z")

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does anyone know if I can use navigation in a swf that is loaded into a main movie on a (layer4 for example). and then make that navigation (layer 4) access the main movie timeline…if this is possible what syntax would i use to reach back to the main movie timeline…thank you for your help!

teddy

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigation-help/28903/2 "2003-08-20T00:28:38Z")

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Are you loading the navigation into a level or a movie clip?

If you load it through a movie clip then use the movie clip then the navigation buttons should refer to the main timeline with:

\_root.blah.blah.blah

But if you load through level, well lets say you load the navigation into \_level2:

\_\_level2.blah.blah.blah

That help?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/navigation-help/28903/3 "2003-08-20T00:33:22Z")

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the navigation is loaded into a layer within the movie…and i want to have the button read the main movie timeline to have it pull up another layer beneath it…which should i use? and how would i apply that to it:

\_root.on (release) {  
gotoAndPlay(66);  
} ?

thank you very much for your help