# Quick tellTarget question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-telltarget-question/190178>\
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**Created:** [June 9, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-telltarget-question/190178 "2006-06-09T07:52:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-telltarget-question/190178/1 "2006-06-09T07:52:42Z")

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im trying to use tellTarget to start a movie clip on a different timeline and i am not sure what i am doing wrong. If i wanted to tell “playbox” to start playing on the root timeline i should have something like this right?

this.button.onRelease = function () {  
tellTarget ("\_root.playbox") {  
gotoAndPlay (“Play”);  
}  
}

i keep getting this error  
Target not found: Target=“playbox” Base="\_level0.instance5"