# Question about Absolute targeting in a loaded movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-absolute-targeting-in-a-loaded-movie/122649>\
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**Created:** [September 15, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-absolute-targeting-in-a-loaded-movie/122649 "2004-09-15T16:51:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![lopsided](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@lopsided](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lopsided)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-absolute-targeting-in-a-loaded-movie/122649/1 "2004-09-15T16:51:20Z")

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hi.  
i’m in the process of building a movie that is to be loaded and played into another main swf. the targeting (which is multi-level) works fine when the movie is played by itself but when it’s loaded and played in the main swf some of the targeting doesn’t work. i’ve tried using \_parent. and stuff like that but it’s not working. any ideas? can someone point me in the right direction? the frustrating thing is that some of the targeting does work. thanks.