Flash novice - swf playback how-to

...so I've got a swf as my portfolio/demoreel interface, I've got all the buttons working right (bio, resume) but I don't know how to add code to the demoreel portion(which is a .swf file within the .swf interface) I've added it on a layer in my scene, hoping that it would simply start playing, obviously its not working as I expected.
If i've got a button with instance name: demoreelButton_instance1, how do i script the button to have the swf start playing?
any help would me much appreciated,
Cheerz
-M

If you imported the swf into your library and it contained actionscript to make it work, it doesn't contain the actionscript anymore. You need to dynamically load the swf in order for it to retain its built-in functionality
In any other case, you should be able to just target the swf object and tell it to play();

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