# Problem sending variables that are in an MC

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**Created:** [August 10, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-sending-variables-that-are-in-an-mc/235377 "2007-08-10T15:10:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![sissykicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@sissykicker](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sissykicker)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-sending-variables-that-are-in-an-mc/235377/1 "2007-08-10T15:10:06Z")

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I make student exercises that are submitted to instructors. They are usually straight-forward. Just input boxes on the main stage and I submit them using this code:

on (release) {  
subject=“Forms”;  
next\_url="/all/submitted.html";  
getURL("/cgi-bin/mail?fs", “\_self”, “POST”);  
}

However, I’ve had to make a more complicated form that is inside a movie clip. The vars inside the MC don’t send.

So I tried setting another variable on the \_root equal to the input box instance names

var casename\_ipt:String;  
\_root.casename\_ipt = \_root.nagivationpane.container.form74.casename.text;

Still no dice. The variables that are on the \_root all send, but the ones in the MC(form74) still don’t. Anyone know how I can get around this problem?