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does the beforeShowContent method not execute in child views?

no,i guess. bcoz childviews are instantiated by parent view not by childview itself.

oh right. but if i had to load a separate model in the child view, how would I do it?

Couldn’t you add the model you need as a dependency of the child view and load it within the view?

Either that or load the model before you instantiate the child view and pass it in as a parameter when it’s being created?

If you're using page types, then your child view can just use something like this:
```, beforeShowContent: function beforeShowContent ()
  {
    return this.model.fetch()
  }```

Although you should probably also pass in an AJAX request killer ID as well

If you're not using page types then we typically recommend you don't create the child view until the model fetch has completed, but you could probably just as easy add in a model fetch to the child view's `initialize()` method and then trigger a re-render after successfully fetching

Also I should point out that `beforeShowContent` as an event is, generally speaking, one introduced through the extensibility API. Prior to that we did generic Backbone events that triggered at the same time as the event in question; for example `this.model.on('change', this.render)`

Thanks for the inputs <@U8X7E86M6> <@U5U2L5GN7>
I managed to successfully get the data in the child view that I needed :+1: