Why does Lock Alliance Setting Not Work?

[RiskYourUnits]

Ok heres the deal, im making a risk map and im sick of the -ally/-war command to ally and unally. because when a player is not the right color it is just a pain in the butt.
So i decided to use the ally screen but my problem is that the trigger action

Game- Set Lock Alliance Settings to Off

does not allow ally screen (f11 i believe) to work.
I knows its not just my risk map because i opened a blank map and tried. is there anything else i need to enable for ally menu to be usable?

Also is this helps ive tried 2 different actions for it
Map initilizaion
and after a dialog button is clicked (for choosing modes)

 

[Ezekiel12]

For the Ally screen to work you have to open the map via multiplayer.