Activate a button inside a symbol

First let me just say that edge is great tool, and makes our life much easier.
well.. i'm trying to get familiar with the program and I run into some obstacles.
on the stage i have a symbol, inside that symbol i have a button, which i need it to run an animation on the timeline inside that same symbol.
i used- sym.play("label name on timeline"); --- not working
i have noticed another problem, when i change the cursor it also dosen't appear when i export (CTRL+ENTER).
i tried to activate the symbol on the main timeline of the stage but it didnt solved the problem either.

YES.
Button is in mySymbol
you need to get back to the stage:
sym.getComposition().getStage().
you need to get the symbol
getSymbol("mySymbol")
you need to get the button:
$('btn')
sym.getComposition().getStage().getSymbol("mySymbol").$('btn').click(function(){
// you code here
sym.getSymbol("mySymbol").play('symbolLabel');
Here is a sample file:
https://www.box.com/s/lu9o0w0oqtex3fodti4x

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True this is also a possibility. But this method is almost the same of "Giving the items an ID manually on creation and use document.getElementById() afterwards".
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