# Question about Absolute targeting in a loaded movie
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-absolute-targeting-in-a-loaded-movie/64373
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 15, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-absolute-targeting-in-a-loaded-movie/64373 "2004-09-15T16:51:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@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/64373/1 "2004-09-15T16:51:20Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-absolute-targeting-in-a-loaded-movie/64373/2 "2004-09-15T19:50:45Z")
did you try to address it from \_root?