Thank you for taking the time to so this resdesign, I'm not sure how I would go about setting variables within this code, once the user has re-arranged the list in to the correct order I want…

You can do it with css on a trigger at the labels on the timeline.   For example   sym.$("Ellipse").css({'top':209, 'left':251, 'height':27, 'width':27});

Have you tried just doing   var n = 30;   without any quotation marks?

Did you update to Animate CC 2014? There was an update that fixed known issues with Chrome.

Just had a quick look and came across this, don't know if it will help you though parralax banner with smooth mouse move   Hope you find your answers!

Have you tried using .animate?   sym.$("symbol_name").animate({left:200}, 1000);   200 is the position and 1000 is the duration of the animation. 1000 = 1 second.

TimJaramillo  helped with something like this before Re: Playback Speed of a Symbol     or if that doesn't make sense there's more of a sellotape fix on this thread Re: Is there a way to set…

put this in the click code on that symbol   sym.$("symbol_name").css("zIndex", number);   for example:   // insert code for mouse click here sym.$("rectangle_1").css("zIndex", 11);

I have this in a trigger on the stage timeline, you could have all of this code in the one trigger, or in composition ready, or in creation complete... depends when you want the video to play I…

You could maybe implement a slider? Check out these examples Create Click and Touch Draggable Scrubbers with Edge Animate CC | sarahjustine.com

It might be better to set variables to each draggable item on the start function of being dragged, then in the drop function set if statements. This is some code I have in a project..  …