# Tell Target help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/269035>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/269035 "2008-08-21T16:57:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jennly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@jennly](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jennly)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tell-target-help/269035/1 "2008-08-21T16:57:12Z")

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Hey Everyone,

I’m a newbie at Actionscripting and need a little bit of help!

The main base of this flash file that I’ve created contains two movie clips/symbols. Each movie contains their own timelines and interactive elements.

Movie clip #1 is called “Home”, which contains another movie clip called “homebuttons”. “homebuttons” contains a button called “button-web”.

When the user clicks on this “button-web” button, they should be taken back out to movie clip file #2 called “web”, which sits on the main timeline, outside of movie clip #1.

The action I’ve written for this button is:

on (release) {  
tellTarget ("\_Level0/web") {  
gotoAndPlay (1);  
}  
}

I’ve also tried various forms of tellTarget ("/web"), tellTarget ("…/…/web") but I am getting confused and I’m not sure what I should be doing.

The error that I’m getting is “Target not found: Target=”\_Level0/web" Base="\_level0.home.instance19".

If anyone out there has any insight to this and can guide me in the right direction, it would be so much appreciated!!!

Thanks!!

jennifer:hr: