Activity › Forums › Adobe After Effects Expressions › Can’t Reference Layers of Parent Comp with Expression in CC 2014 Adobe After Effects Expressions Can’t Reference Layers of Parent Comp with Expression in CC 2014 Posted by Kevin Burke on September 26, 2014 at 5:56 pm Hi, I’m getting an error when I pickwhip to reference a layer in the parent comp of my layer with the expression. This does not make any sense to me…if I pickwhip, the layer name should be correct. Does anyone know what might be happening? Thank you. Quba Michalski replied 11 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies 2 Replies Kevin Camp September 26, 2014 at 7:15 pm it should work that way. double check that you have the latest update. if so, you might try a reboot and see if that has any effect. if that doesn’t help, file a bug report by either choosing help>send feed back, or use this link: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform Kevin Camp Art Director KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW Quba Michalski October 6, 2014 at 9:37 pm Is it at all possible that you have more than one composition called “grid” ? Just a wild guess, as the error, indeed, does not make sense. Quba Michalski qubahq.com Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up Public All Members My Connections Only Me PublicAll MembersMy ConnectionsOnly Me Public All Members My Connections Only Me Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up