Aux Timeline...I'm doing something wrong

[kjgcdesign]

I apologize for my stupidity.  I'm new to Watchout.  I've been able to create everything I need to create in a moderately complex show.  In an effort to write cues I have developed a series of Aux Timelines (as per suggestions in previous threads).  I have written control cues to start these timelines.  Problem is..the control cues don't work.  I click on Task, add a timeline, name it.  Place a control cue on the main timeline, don't normally name it, I click Tell: Timeline Named: <insert name, case sensitive>.  The only other thing checked is the "Run" option.  Click ok.   Go to main timeline, press the spacebar to execute the control cue/ aux timeline.  Nothing.  

 

I'm certain I'm doing something stupid easy wrong.  I would be forever grateful if anyone knows what it might be, and they would tell me.  

 

Thanks in advance.

[Vollmers]

Suggestion - try to create an aux timeline, and put the control cue there instead. I’ve made a very complex show, and I use that function all the time, the way I just described it.

[Thomas Leong]

The Preview Cursor has to 'run over' the Control Cue in the Main Timeline for the cue to execute. If the cursor is parked at the beginning of the cue, it won't execute what it has been told to do. So back up a fraction of a sec or two before you hit the spacebar.

[wiesemann]

Make sure to not lock the layer(s) that contain the cues. It wont pause, even if there is one "Pause"-cue.

At least that happened to me once. Only once!