I have a mod that I have been working on with another friend online. The mod has a quest and when I try to use "setstage questID stage#" in the console, my quest objectives do not show up and it does not say "quest started". I checked "help questname" and my quest showed up as an option. My quest menu does not list the quest when I attempt to change the stage. I also changed the stage to a point where I knew a dialogue option was available and I was able to use that dialogue option. I'm really confused and I'm looking for ideas for troubleshooting the situation. I haven't encountered an issue like this before. One last thing, the quest objectives used to appear, but in the new version that my friend sent me they don't work. I asked him if he knew anything about it and he said he did not and that he used saves from different stages of the quest rather than using the console commands. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot?

Things I've tried:

I tried setting all of the quest aliases to optional, did not fix.