The sequencer will show the state (online, paused, etc) when that take item is put online from the COM API. You need to make sure you are putting the actual take item online though and not just the scene that the take item was based off of.
e.g. (C#)
xpBaseTakeItem takeitem;
engine.Sequencer.GetTakeItemByID(0002, out takeitem);
takeitem.Execute;
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